BIG Online System Requirements

Windows
  • Intel® Pentium® 150mHz processor or higher
  • Microsoft® Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 6, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2, Windows XP Professional or Home Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
  • 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended)
  • 100MB of available hard-disk space
  • Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher
  • Mozilla FireFox 1.0.2 or higher
  • Netscape 8
  • In order to access the database, your browser must be set to accept cookies, and your Javascript must be enabled
  • If you have a firewall, either at PC level or at network level, you may need to give our sites permission to pass through as trusted sites. It is the responsibility of the purchaser to ensure that permissions are enabled
  • BIG Online and FoundationSearch are resources which have taken many hundreds of hours to compile and which Metasoft Systems, Inc is anxious to protect.. Prospective clients are offered access to the databases in order to verify the amount of use their organization can make of it. You should take advantage of this, because following purchase we do not permit refunds other than through the Metasoft guarantee, which has very stringent conditions attached




Macintosh
  • PowerPC® G3 processor
  • MAC OS X v.10.2.2-10.2.6
  • 128MB of RAM with virtual memory on (256MB recommended)
  • 100MB of available hard-disk space
  • Safari web browser
  • In order to access the database, your browser must be set to accept cookies, and your Javascript must be enabled
  • If you have a firewall, either at PC level or at network level, you may need to give our sites permission to pass through as trusted sites. It is the responsibility of the purchaser to ensure that permissions are enabled
  • BIG Online and FoundationSearch are resources which have taken many hundreds of hours to compile and which Metasoft Systems, Inc is anxious to protect.. Prospective clients are offered access to the databases in order to verify the amount of use their organization can make of it. You should take advantage of this, because following purchase we do not permit refunds other than through the Metasoft guarantee, which has very stringent conditions attached




Web Browser for Windows and MAC

BIG Online® requires that Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or later is installed.  

To download and install the latest version of Internet Explorer for Windows, click here.  



To download and install the latest version of the Safari Browser for MAC OSX, click here.






Adobe Acrobat Reader

Some documents in BIG Online are in Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF). To download a free version of Adobe Reader for Windows or Mac, click here.