An Introduction to Microsoft Internet Explorer

If planned obsolescence is the cross that modern consumers bear (often happily), then software updates (or dribbleware) is the equivalent of planned obsolescence on steroids. Bi-weekly updates downloadable from the Internet have made applications among the most fluid of products on the market. Figuring in planning, production, and marketing time, where does that leave video tutorials? In a word: behind. This "new" program on Microsoft's litigation-inducing browser Internet Explorer is another case of listening to today's (sound) bytes on yesterday's (data) bits. Offering an overview of an earlier version of IE (you will not see 4.0 or later incarnations here), the program walks viewers through the menu bar, mixing the simple with the rather complicated. I would suggest that the user who needs an explanation of what a "URL" is will be most likely baffled by the terse explanation of one menu item as a way to "send a Windows 95 shortcut to My Briefcase." That said, I--who may not be ready to tackle major waves but am reasonably well-versed in the art of surfing--will now be able to save oodles of time scrolling through a page because this video alerted me to the Find command for searching an individual page on the web. For my money, Library Video Network's Searching the Web (VL3/98) is a much more useful program which doesn't fall into the trap of covering specific and quickly evolving software programs. Optional. Aud: E, I, J, H, C, P. (R. Pitman)