Word: browser
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...opening statement, Boies tried to give the court a glimpse of the darker Gates. At Boies' signal, Gates appeared on the courtroom video monitors denying the government's crucial charge that Microsoft tried to buy off Netscape, its archrival in the Internet browser business. "Somebody asked if it made sense investing in Netscape, and I said it didn't make any sense," Gates said, in a clip from his August 1998 deposition. But a moment later, the video monitors were displaying a seemingly contradictory 1995 e-mail, in which Gates wrote of Netscape, "We could give them money as part...
...Gates and Satan, and you'll turn up tens of thousands of hits. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig was a court-appointed monitor in an earlier Justice Department suit against Microsoft before Gates' lawyers uncovered an old e-mail in which Lessig joked that when he installed Microsoft's browser on his computer he "sold his soul...
...never did use the D word, but Justice Department lawyers have good tactical reasons for keeping Gates' own words and deeds at the heart of their case. Justice began its antitrust campaign against Microsoft with a straightforward claim that the company was guilty of improperly "bundling" its Internet Explorer browser into its popular Windows software. Judge Jackson bought the argument, but it was shot down by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals--a reversal that Microsoft viewed as decisive. Justice is now making a more wide-ranging argument that there is a pervasive pattern of Microsoft's using its monopoly...
Despite its difficulty in making the "bundling" argument, Justice has continued to build its case around the Internet browser--the principal software used to navigate the Internet. The government contends that Microsoft has been intent on overtaking Netscape's Navigator because it fears that such browsers may one day be used as an alternative operating system for computers in a way that could make Windows obsolete. Winning the browser war, Boies charged, was Microsoft's way of gaining "a choke hold on the Internet...
...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...