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Hayden BooksI remember relatively little about the second edition of Internet Starter Kit for Windows, although I seem to recall it being fairly stressful to produce. Then again, that's true of many computer books. One of the problems was that Microsoft was threatening to release Windows 95 and had been so threatening for months. We didn't want to wait for them, but at the same time, we knew that focussing on Windows 3.1 was something of a mistake.
In the end, both the second edition of the book and the box version, Internet Starter Kit for Windows 2.0, sold fairly well, although nowhere nearly up to the level of the first edition. By this time, the market had gorged itself on Internet books, and although the Macintosh versions were less affected in that smaller market, the Windows versions were eaten alive by all the competition. That's not to imply they were bad, just that there were so many Windows Internet books that it became almost impossible to stand out.
It was clear that there was no real reason to update Internet Starter Kit for Windows to a third edition. Although many millions of people continue to use Windows 3.1 in favor of Windows 95, those aren't the sort of people who want to do new things like get Internet access. Nor do they seem to be the sort of people who buy books.
As a result, Internet Starter Kit for Windows, 2nd Edition remains current, so to speak. The software is quite elderly, and there's probably much better software available, even for Windows 3.1. The information about the Internet is equally as obsolete, and I can't really recommend it to anyone just wanting to get on the Internet today.