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• What’s included in Internet Explorer 5.0 and 5.5?
• For the pros

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What's included in Internet Explorer 5.0 and 5.5?

Here's a quick list of what's included in the full installation of Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser version 5.0 and 5.5:

• Web browser - For browsing the World Wide Web
• Microsoft Outlook® Express - For exchanging electronic mail and subscribing to newsgroups
• Microsoft Windows^™ Media Player 6.0 - For playing multimedia files
• Microsoft Chat 2.5 - For communicating in chat rooms
• Microsoft NetMeeting® 2.11 conferencing software - For holding virtual meetings with colleagues, friends, or family
• Microsoft FrontPage® Express 2.0 Web site creation and management tool - For creating Web pages without knowing hypertext markup language (HTML)
• Web Publishing Wizard 1.6 - For publishing pages on the Web
• Microsoft virtual machine - For running Java applications on your computer
• Internet Connection Wizard - For signing up with an Internet service provider and connecting to the Internet
• Offline browsing pack - For browsing when you're not connected
• Wallet 3.0 - For shopping easily and securely on the Web
• Agent 2.0 - For viewing animated characters on the Web
• Help - For finding important information about using the browser
• Core fonts - For using TrueType fonts® created for on-screen viewing
• Dynamic HTML data binding - For quickly sorting through information on the Web
• Browsing enhancements - For working with file transfer protocol (FTP) files and folders
• VRML 2.0 viewer - For viewing virtual reality features on Web pages
• DirectAnimation® application programming interface - For enjoying animation and multimedia capabilities
• Vector graphics rendering - For viewing and creating clear vector graphics
• AOL ART image format support - For viewing images created in the AOL ART file format
• Microsoft Visual Basic® scripting support - For running scripts faster
• Additional Web fonts - For viewing more Web fonts

Sites to visit

• Download Internet Explorer
• Complete list of features of Internet Explorer 5.0 and 5.5

For the pros

To aid information technology (IT) professionals, Microsoft Internet Explorer supports the latest in World Wide Web technologies for easy and fast development of Web-based applications. These technologies include dynamic hypertext markup language (DHTML) behaviors, XSL, XML 1, HTML 5, cascading style sheets version 2 (CSS2), Document Object Model, and ECMA-262 compliant scripting. And Internet Explorer is modular so developers can use portions of the code to enhance their own products. Version 5.0 and 5.5 also automates functions that traditionally fell to IT administrators in corporations.

Sites to visit

• Download Internet Explorer
• Inside Internet Explorer: Final Code—Windows Magazine
• IE5 Offers Better Searches, Built-in Radio—PC World