No smoke, mirrors, or wacky application is required to read and write to other OS' disks. You can load and save to the drive from within any Be application and perform drag and drop between the drives. Networking The only omission in Be's 4.0 release was the lack of Novell and Microsoft network clients. We were unable to browse our Novell servers, however. Be is working on the networking issue and will release both clients as soon as they are ready.
Applications are still limited but more are released almost daily.
BeDepot is an online BeOS one-stop shopping site, which allows for the purchase and downloading of most major applications. Be's own BeWare web site maintains a listing of freeware and shareware apps, which is updated daily. The only omission we currently see is the lack of Java. We didn't really miss it, but a lot of current web sites require it for full functionality. When the networking issues are resolved, general-purpose computing with BeOS will be a reality.