From the Editor's Desktop
What a theme for a season! Toys. First, Scripting Clinic features guest columnist Peter Torr, from the Windows Script team. Following the recent release of Internet Explorer 5.5 Platform Preview, Peter details some of the enhancements you'll find in version 5.5 of JScript® and Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript). Read up, and you'll have more fun playing with script. Hint? Regular expressions.
Next, Robert Hess, of More or Hess, reveals his theory on how to push your computer system to its limits -- and then past them. Yes, it has something to do with toys.
Victor Stone is not about to brighten up for anybody's holidays. Instead, he tells a frightening tale of the new guy.
Finally, we have some new changes coming up for MSDN Online -- good ones! The home page will look a little different, and there will be some fun new stuff for you to try -- all the better to help you here at MSDN Online. I'm not at liberty to tell you more than that just yet, so be sure to check back soon. (Wednesday -- but you didn't hear it from me.)
-- Joannie Kervran Stangeland
December 13, 1999