This page is designed to serve as a brief reference for the basic software configuration of Concordia-Moorhead PCs on campus for both student labs and faculty desk tops. It is also being used by it's author, Jerry Pyle , as a stimulus for discussion on what improvements can or are or should be made to the present standard configuration. There is nothing official about this. For some time now the campus has used a basic configuration of Windows 95, MS Office 95, and Netscape. Many on campus, including me, have also installed Netscape Communicator and are using the improved editor in 4.x called Composer.
Composer is in the student labs as a component in Communicator.
Composer is also being installed by computer services as part of the upgrade to Office 97. Is is probably fair to say that Netscape has become somewhat of a defacto web authoring tool on campus. But it is important to note that the numbers of faculty and students using it on a regular basis is still quite modest. In a nutshell, faculty and student labs will continue to have Netscape available to them but students will probably be doing more of their basic authoring with a component of Microsoft's Office 97 . This will mean that faculty that wish to involve students in web authoring will need to become familiar with the Office 97 tools .