Windows 2000 Professional includes enhancements to Microsoft Internet Explorer and a powerful program for accessing e-mail and newsgroups, Microsoft Outlook® Express. These features allow you to communicate over the Internet more easily than ever before.

Internet Explorer 5 simplifies complex tasks, allows you to automate common tasks, and provides you with the flexibility to use the Web more easily. Internet Explorer 5 contains the following features that are not available in Internet Explorer for Windows NT 4.0:

Outlook Express is an Internet standards-based e-mail and newsgroup client. In Windows 2000 Professional, Outlook Express can send and receive e-mail messages in HTML format that are similar in appearance to Web pages with links and text formatting. E-mail messages are displayed in a three-pane window so that you can preview the message's contents. Outlook Express also allows multiple users to keep separate e-mail accounts, contacts, and preferences, and permits users to change accounts without reconnecting to the Internet.