March 1997 / Bits

PC 97 Road Map The Four Varieties of Windows PCs Instant PC Turn-On	Microsoft's planned upgrades of its Windows OSes portend changes to a wide variety of PC components. - by Dave Andrews
Geek Mystique	Geek Greetings - by Dave Andrews
PC Phones Add Power Not Just a Phone Anymore	New devices for the small office/home office (SOHO) market can better help you keep in touch, whether you're working in the office or on the road. - by Jon Pepper
Future Watch	What's Next for Apple? Rhapsody - by Dave Andrews
What's Next for Video Conferences	Although prices continue to drop, technical and social obstacles must still be addressed before desktop videoconferencing becomes as common an application as making a telephone call. - by Curt Harler
Bug of the Month Should Look Harder, or Better	Elusive Plug and Play
Better Error Traps Coming for Coders	Along with more sophisticated, more modular, and more complex software components come more sophisticated, more modular, and more complex bugs. - by Steve Apiki
Survey If Filing Electronically in 1997...	E-Filing Myths and Facts
Microsoft Goes for the Enterprise	Now that it has conquered the desktop, Microsoft is taking aim at the enterprise. - by David Chappell
Book Review: Five Guides to Better Site Building	The Art of Electronic Publishing by Sandy Ressler; Prentice-Hall; ISBN 0-13-488172-9; $39.95 with CD-ROM Web Publisher's Construction Kit with Netscape Plug-Ins by Jonathan Angel; Waite Group Press; ISBN 1-57169-049-2; $39.99 with CD-ROM Web Graphics Sourcebook by Ed Tittel, Susan Price, and James Michael Stewart; Wiley Computer Publishing; ISBN 0-471-15692-2; $44.95 with CD-ROM The Visual J++ Handbook by William H. Murray and Chris H. Pappas; AP Professional; ISBN 0-12-511915-1; $39.95 The Web Server Handbook by Pete Palmer and Adam Schneider, with Anne Chenette; Prentice-Hall; ISBN 0-13-239930-X; $39.95 with CD-ROM Are you ready to improve your Web site building skills? - by Michael Nadeau
DataPro Report What Users Value Most in Portables Users Rate Notebook Performance	Wanted: More Powerful Mobile Systems - by John MacGilvary
Advances and Retreats in Computing A Scanner in the Hand	C++ for Ebonics? Should everyone, even programmers, be allowed to have their own dialect? - by Marc Abrahams
CD-ROM Review: Who's on First? Before You Go to the Ballgame, Bone Up	Who's on First? - by Jesse Friedman
Zero Admin Windows Victor Raisys, Microsoft	Victor Raisys, lead product manager of systems management products, discusses how Microsoft will make PC management easier. - by Dave Andrews

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