Amazon.co.uk Review
Colour for its own sake isn't necessarily good.
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition at a Glance takes a good thing (the heavily graphical way of illustrating procedures made popular in the Visual QuickStart books by Peachpit Press) to an extreme. The colour surely upped the cover price and, though the pages are generally attractive and well laid out, it's not clear that the colour makes it any easier to learn how to make Windows Me get your e-mail or play your MP3 files.
That said, this book is fine for the novice. If you are unfamiliar with the conventions that emerged with Windows 95 or with Microsoft's recent Internet software, you will appreciate the patient approach.
Text-and-graphics capsules explain how to carry out procedures--say, the one for setting up a signature that will appear at the end of each of your e-mail messages. You get a picture of the relevant piece of Windows Me (in the case of e-mail signatures, the Options box from Outlook Express). Callouts point from the text of the steps to the piece of the interface that's relevant to each. This way you more clearly understand what you should do next. --David Wall
Synopsis
Colored illustrations demonstrate the operating system's functions and features, including how to personalize the desktop, set up e-mail, share Internet connections, network home computers, protect files, and play games online.
