Word: aol
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...claim that Microsoft engaged in a pattern of "predatory acts" involving many key technology players, including America Online and Compaq. Justice says Microsoft used improper coercion to get these companies to help it crush Netscape. In the case of America Online, the government says, Microsoft refused to put AOL's icon on the Windows desktop unless AOL abandoned Netscape in favor of Internet Explorer. With Compaq, the government says, Microsoft threatened to terminate the company's license for Windows after it dropped Explorer in favor of Navigator...
WASHINGTON: Maybe everybody else is doing it. In court on Thursday, Microsoft backed up its defense of divide-and-conquer tactics by showing that AOL and Netscape appeared to be up to the same thing -- just months after an alleged share-the-market meeting between Netscape and Microsoft. Cited: An internal AOL document describing a multimillion-dollar offer to Netscape to license its browser software and "create a vision to compete with Microsoft" -- in exchange for Netscape's staying out of AOL's online service business...
...that a market division proposal?" Microsoft attorney John Warden asked AOL senior vice president David Colburn in court. "What it seemed to me to be was a strategic partnership," hedged Colburn, who then backed up the government's case by testifying that in 1996, AOL chose Microsoft's browser over Netscape's because of its vast distribution on the Windows desktop. Oh, yeah --and rather than being paid for its software, Microsoft paid AOL $500,000 to distribute its browser. It was a deal that AOL couldn't refuse...
WASHINGTON: So you say Mr. Gates did bad things to you? America Online and Apple are the latest victims in the Justice Department's parade of top tech firms allegedly abused by Microsoft. AOL's contention: That the software giant sweet-talked it into an exclusive (and illegal) deal, where AOL would get a cute launch button on the Windows desktop -- if it sold its service-provider soul exclusively to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Netscape would be provided only if users asked for it ?- a deal that Redmond enforced by playing Big Brother. "Microsoft has carefully monitored references to Navigator...
VincentVG: There comes a moment when all hope is lost, fatally and irrevocably, in the new foal that is budding romance. For me, it was finding out that my fair princess's AOL member profile turned out to be false...