True Web, which is an optional part of Internet Explorer 4.0, does add some useful features to Windows, such as easier, more customizable views of the file system and a simpler way of customizing the Start menu, but Microsoft isn't finished with it yet.
True Web is unstable, for one thing.
Active Desktop crashed a few times during PC Week Labs' testing, which is disconcerting in an element so tightly entwined with the operating system. Second, the user interface for many of the elements is awkward and confusing, and we had trouble figuring out the benefit of some of the features. Scaled back Microsoft has backed off a bit from its original vision of integrating the Windows desktop with the Web. The integration that ships with Internet Explorer 4.0 is subtler, by default, than what shipped with beta versions of Internet Explorer. In fact, when it is first installed, most users wouldn't notice much of a difference if it weren't for the prominent display of Microsoft's Channels component on the desktop.