NETSCAPE INTRODUCES INTERNATIONAL BETA VERSIONS OF NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR 2.0

NETSCAPE INTERNET SITE NOW CONTAINS JAPANESE, GERMAN AND FRENCH CONTENT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (February 15, 1996) -- Netscape Communications
Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced the public beta of Japanese,
German and French versions of Netscape Navigator 2.0, Netscape's widely
popular client software for enterprise networks and the Internet. The
international public beta versions of Netscape Navigator 2.0 can be
downloaded immediately from the Netscape Internet site at
http://home.netscape.com

Netscape also announced today that users can access news and product
information in Japanese, German and French from the Netscape Internet
site, and can download international releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 by
following prompts in these languages. Users can access Japanese content at
http://home.jp.netscape.com/ja, German content at
http://home.de.netscape.com/de, and French content at
http://home.fr.netscape.com/fr.

Netscape Navigator includes a full suite of Internet applications including
web browsing and new collaboration features such as interactive electronic
mail, integrated threaded discussion groups and support for Live Objects
-- or interactive multimedia content -- including frames, inline plug-ins,
JavaScript, and Java applets. Embedded spreadsheets, animation, streaming
audio and video, and 3-D capabilities are just a few features of Netscape
Navigator that Live Objects provide.

"International customers now can access the advanced features of Netscape
Navigator in their native languages, enabling them to take advantage of
such features as Java support, sophisticated layout capabilities, and
multimedia Plug-Ins with core applications such as email and threaded
discussion groups," said Mike Homer, vice president of marketing at
Netscape. "Netscape Navigator provides users around the world with an
interactive and open environment for communicating, collaborating and
conducting business over the global Internet or across their enterprise
networks."

Netscape Navigator is a powerful, flexible and easy-to-use online
environment, combining point-and-click network navigation, email, threaded
discussion groups, file transfers and other Internet services in a
seamlessly integrated package. It is optimized to run smoothly over 14.4
kilobit/second modems as well as higher bandwidth lines. Netscape
Navigator 2.0 provides a common feature set and graphical user interface
across computers running the Microsoft Windows, Macintosh or X Window
System operating environments. Netscape's products are based on industry
standards and protocols, and are compatible with existing World Wide Web
clients and servers.

Netscape Navigator provides a host of new capabilities within the Netscape
Navigator environment including:

 INTEGRATED EMAIL, enabling users to both read and send standards-
 based email. Users can embed live Internet hyperlinks into mail
 messages; list, view, sort, drag and drop messages; and read messages
 offline. Netscape Navigator email includes a personal address
 book and supports MIME attachments for multimedia messages.

 INTEGRATED THREADED DISCUSSION GROUPS, allowing users to sort
 and list messages from subscribed folders. Netscape Navigator
 2.0 provides fully threaded and MIME-compliant news reading and
 posting, for multimedia news articles.

 SUPPORT FOR LIVE OBJECTS -- or interactive multimedia content
 -- including: Netscape inline plug-ins support, which enables
 new capabilities to be seamlessly integrated as plug-ins into
 Netscape Navigator. Netscape inline plug-ins, being developed
 by hundreds of third party developers, include such applications
 as a player for Macromedia Director presentations and a viewer
 for Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents

 SUPPORT FOR JAVA APPLETS, or mini-applications created in the
 Java programming language. Java applets include security features
 and bring a range of new functionality to enterprise networks
 and the Internet, enabling live updating, two-way interaction,
 and platform-independent client/server applications.

 FRAMES, a new page presentation capability that enables the display
 of multiple, independently scrollable panels on a single screen,
 each with its own distinct Internet address. They also enable
 aregion of the screen to be frozen in place as the user scrolls
 through information on a page.

 ENHANCED BOOKMARKS interface that enables users to drag and drop
 links from any Web page into the bookmark window and arrange
 them using a hierarchical folder-based interface. The interface
 makes it easy for users to create and maintain a directory of
 their favorite internal or external Web sites.

The international public beta versions of Netscape Navigator 2.0 can be
downloaded immediately from Netscape's Internet site. The software is
available for Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows
NT, and X Window System operating environments.

The international beta version of Netscape Navigator 2.0 will be available
by download for evaluation by individuals as well as commercial users. The
beta versions of Netscape Navigator 2.0 will expire and users should
purchase supported, licensed copies. Customers should check with Netscape
or a Netscape authorized international distributor for upgrade and pricing
information when the final version becomes available. Volume discounts are
available for multiple user licenses.

Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software
to link people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet.
The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development tools and
Netscape Commercial Applications to create a complete platform for
next-generation, live online applications. Traded on Nasdaq under the
symbol "NSCP", Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain
View, California.

Additional information on Netscape Communications Corporation is available
on the Internet at http://home.netscape.com or by sending email to
info@netscape.com. Corporate customers should call 415-528-2555 while
consumers should call 415.528.3777 for more information.

Corporate Sales: 415/528-2555; Personal Sales: 415/528-3777
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