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As a network integration company my employees are very much in need of a suitable and content rich guide to ease the transition into Windows 2000. I believe that the writing style of the author lends itself well to the technically savvy as well as computer newcomers and we will continue to recommend this book to our clients.

The instant reference is organized very intuitively and every page is something that I have run into or I know that my clients will run into in the future.

I hope to see more from where this came from!

If I had to choose one book to pick for upgrading to, migrating to, or installing a new Windows 2000 domain, I'd have to choose this one.

On the CD, there's a hundred or so worksheets that can help you with the migration or upgrade, and plenty of web sites that you can access if you get in trouble with it. I'd say this book is a MUST HAVE for any Windows 2000 administrator.

I really enjoyed the section on DHTML, and XML. I have been writing with DHTML for quite some time, and it's one of those things I just memorized, but this book actually explains so many things, I find myself going back over my own code and actually understanding why I had to do things the way I did. Don't even get me started on the JavaScript section. Is there anything this guy doesn't know? My only real complaint is that the publishers didn't contract him for a sequel. This is a book that could easily be split into 2-3 different volumes, and I firmly believe that the author could more than fill them up. Trust me, he is a true master of his craft, and even if you're old-hat at most of this, you will still learn enough to make the cost of this book worth your while. Tom Yager really went out of his way on this one, and he really understands what people need/want in a book on web development. I sincerely hope he writes another.

The flow of the book is very good, transitioning from major section to section with little difficulty. This book is not a reference book on any of the technologies mentioned on the cover! It is a great overview of each topic and how they inter-relate.

The downside of this book is that it doesn't go into enough detail in some areas. To actually begin implementing some of the ideas, you need another teaching aid to learn the Microsoft Tool in question. Fortunately, the book offers pointers to good references on each of the tools described.

All in all this book was a very thorough, easy read giving a great overview of the current state of the art in Microsoft System Architecture.

As a new user of Windows 95 (but veteran Windows 3.x user), I was looking for a book that would help me appreciate how it works--but I didn't need hand-holding. None impressed me, so I started using the product anyway. I was immediately struck by several unintuitive and challenging quirks. I also started to see work-arounds that left me wondering why the designers hadn't thought of the same things I had (like default "send to" entries for the Start menu and Desktop). Anyway, I then happened upon this book and felt an immediate rush of comfort and solace, reading of another's similar discoveries and shared solutions. Being confident that I'd barely scratched the surface of such challenges, and wanting to be able to solve them quickly when I did encounter them, I bought this book. I'm happy I did. If you're a Windows 3.x, Mac, or OS/2 user converting to Windows 95, I think you'll find it very helpful too!

I purchased it for my workplace (in a hospital). My co-workers and I use it very often!

Using what's built into Windows '95 you'll learn the basics, how to use Wordpad, Windows Paint, copy/arrange/rename/etc files and folders, fax and e-mail with Microsoft Exchange, format a disk, and a couple other tasks.

I have two main complaints, however: (1) "Windows 98" is a misnomer, since the book is really about Windows programming for any version. (2) The authors supposedly tell you how to "make the best use" of MFC, but they mostly try to avoid MFC as far as they can, even if it seems more appropriate. (3) I was surprised to see no treatment of DirectX in the whole PART devoted to graphics programming...

Still, the book is informative, and covers broad terrirotry (though in shallow detail at times). The CD-ROM contains all the source code - ALL of it works! In fact, the compiled versions are on the CD-ROM too.