NETSCAPE ANNOUNCES NEW CLIENT SOFTWARE FOR THE RETAIL CHANNEL

NEW PRODUCTS INCLUDE NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR GOLD PERSONAL EDITION AND NETSCAPE
NAVIGATOR PERSONAL EDITION FOR MACINTOSH USERS

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (April 10, 1996) -- Netscape Communications Corporation
(NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced the expansion of its retail software
product line with the unveiling of Netscape Navigator Gold Personal
Edition for Windows, Netscape Navigator Personal Edition 2.0 for Windows
and Macintosh, and Netscape Power Pack 2.0 for Windows. The announcements
were made at RetailVision '96, a software industry trade show. These new
products bring an additional level of interactivity to users who are
interested in accessing, sharing or publishing information on the Internet
from their homes or small businesses.

"We are excited to offer home and small business customers the same
capabilities available to our corporate customers when they use Netscape
products to navigate and communicate on the Internet and intranets," said
Mike Homer, senior vice president of marketing at Netscape. "With these
new products, our customers now can easily obtain Internet access, create
and publish their own Web pages and use exciting audio, video and 3-D
technology on the Internet."

NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR GOLD PERSONAL EDITION

Netscape Navigator Gold Personal Edition is an enhanced version of Netscape
Navigator 2.0. The product combines all of the features of Netscape
Navigator with easy-to-use WYSIWYG editing and Web publishing
capabilities, giving home and small business users the ability to create,
edit and publish their own Web pages. Netscape Navigator Gold Personal
Edition includes a Page Starter Site, providing users with tools and
templates to develop Web pages. In addition, Netscape Navigator Gold
Personal Edition allows users to automatically create an Internet access
account with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and supports "one-button
publishing," a feature that enables users to post text, links and images
used to create Web pages with an ISP that supports Web publishing.

NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR PERSONAL EDITION 2.0

Netscape Navigator Personal Edition 2.0 is the newest version of Netscape's
popular client software for the Internet. Personal Edition 2.0 provides
users with the tools they need to easily connect to the Internet over a
modem including connection software and wizards that allow users to
automatically create an account with any of five leading Internet Service
Providers including NETCOM, Concentric Network, PSINet, Portal and
internetMCI. Users can also configure Personal Edition 2.0 for an existing
Internet account.

"Netscape Navigator Personal Edition for Windows has been the number- one
selling communications software product at retail for eight consecutive
months," said Dave Rothschild, director of client applications at
Netscape. "We are now bringing this successful product to our Macintosh
customers so they can quickly and easily access the Internet."

Netscape Navigator Personal Edition 2.0 features email, newsgroups, FTP,
and gopher as well as support for audio, video, animation and Java,
enabling users to add plug-ins and other utilities to view advanced and
dynamic pages on the Internet.

NETSCAPE POWER PACK 2.0

Netscape Power Pack 2.0 for Windows is a suite of companion applications
designed for Internet power users who want to extend the capabilities of
Netscape Navigator. Netscape Power Pack 2.0 contains four powerful
Internet applications including:

* Netscape SmartMarks 2.0, which automatically manages and tracks users'
favorite Internet sites and downloads documents with new information so
users can browse them from their computers - even when they are not
connected.

* Netscape Chat 2.0, which supports real-time communications and allows
Netscape Navigator users to send, view, and share universal resource
locators (URLs) with other chat users.

* Norton AntiVirus Internet Scanner, offering users Internet virus
protection by scanning files that are downloaded from the Internet or
received as Internet email attachments.

* INSO CyberSpell for Netscape Mail, based on the same spell-checking
technology that is installed in more than 80 percent of the PC desktops in
the world. Users can spell and proof email, take advantage of dictionaries
and have the same confidence in the spelling of their Internet email
communications that they have come to expect from their word processor.

In addition, Netscape Power Pack 2.0 contains 15 Netscape Navigator
plug-ins that allow Internet users to listen to audio as well as view
advanced Internet content including animation, graphics, video and 3-D
worlds all within Netscape Navigator. Netscape Power Pack 2.0 plug-ins
include:

 ASAP WebShow by Software Publishing Corporation
 Astound Web Player by Gold Disk
 CarbonCopy/Net by Microcom
 EarthTime/Lite by Starfish Software
 Envoy by Tumbleweed Software
 FIGLeaf Inline Lite by Carberry Technology
 FormulaOne/NET by Visual Components
 Lightning Strike by InfinitOp
 Netscape Live3D by Netscape Communications Corp.
 RealAudio by Progressive Networks
 Shockwave for Director by Macromedia
 VDOLive by VDOnet
 VRScout by Chaco Communications
 WIRL 3D Browser by VREAM
 Microsoft Word Viewer by Inso Corporation

PRICING AND AVAILABILTY

Netscape Navigator Gold Personal Edition for Windows will be available at
retail stores during the third quarter of this year and has an estimated
street price of $79.95. Netscape Navigator Personal Edition 2.0 for
Windows is currently available through major computer retail outlets,
including Best Buy, CompUSA, Computer City, Egghead Software, Media Play,
Software Etc., Staples and others; Netscape intends to release the
Macintosh version during the third quarter of this year. The estimated
street price of both versions of Netscape Navigator Personal Edition is
$49.95, which includes a 90-day limited warranty and customer support.
Previous users of Netscape Navigator Personal Edition are eligible for a
$10 rebate when they purchase Personal Edition 2.0. Netscape Power Pack
2.0 for Windows will be available this month and has an estimated street
price of $39.95. Resellers can order the products directly from Ventana or
through Ingram Micro under the Ventana name.

Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software
for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the
Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development
tools, and 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, by sending email to
info@netscape.com, or by calling 415/528-2555 (corporate customers) or
415/528-3777 (individuals).

Corporate Sales: 415/937-2555
Personal Sales: 415/937-3777
Federal Sales: 415/937-3678
 
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