But without a sophisticated browser, like Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer, I missed out on the animated pictures that many sites offer.

He has also hired Fred Gitelman of Toronto, the top developer of bridge software, to provide bridge play as a free service on Microsoft Explorer.

Older browsers - early versions of Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer or America Online's browser - can't support some of these newer features.

For all features to work properly, either Netscape 3.01 or greater or Microsoft Explorer 4.0 or greater is required.

You must first download Microsoft Explorer 4.0.

But that service, too, is free until the end of the year through Microsoft Explorer.

Netscape may be known now for losing the so-called browser war to Microsoft Explorer.

Microsoft Explorer has 3 percent.

But, as Mr. Myerson noted, "The harsh reality is that, if tomorrow 70 percent of our customers were using Microsoft Explorer, we'd be developing for Microsoft."

For whatever reason, things moved much faster with Microsoft Explorer.