Word: browser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Once that was over, it was Barksdale's turn. The browser boss was intended to be the DOJ's star witness; he was also prepared to rush in where the feds dare not tread by talking about possible remedies, should Microsoft be found to have transgressed antitrust law. The appropriate solution? Not suprisingly, Barksdale wants the court to forever split Windows from Internet Explorer, making the bundling of the two illegal. This is, however, little more than a pipe dream -- not only have antitrust judges been historically reluctant to tamper in product design, but the court of appeals ruled last...
...force a pair of Harvard and M.I.T. professors to hand over taped, off-the-record interviews had been tossed out of a Boston court. What these tapes were said to contain had the software giant's people salivating: top executives at Netscape, their chief rival in the browser wars, were caught candidly admitting to strategic--perhaps fatal--business blunders. It would have been "the best evidence," laments Charles ("Rick") Rule, Microsoft legal consultant and former Assistant Attorney General. The loss of this juicy morsel was another rude awakening for Bill Gates: federal courts, it seems, are a lot less pliable...
...Kelly has noted, the old-fashioned, small-town lack of privacy was symmetrical. You knew the people who were watching you, and you could watch them back. These days, you are not on a first-name basis with the computers that track your credit-card purchases or your Web browser's wanderings--or with the people who, for all you know, can access those computers. It's this sense of a distant, cloaked observer that's really eerie...
...most eagerly aped businessmen in America -- might seem a risky legal strategy to some. Nevertheless, the DOJ and 20 states are pursuing it with full vigor. Their previous court filings have already accused Gates of personally directing the effort to leverage Windows' monopoly to Microsoft's advantage in the browser market; now the states' lead attorney, Steve Houck, is blasting the billionaire for not being on his own firm's witness list. "Given Mr. Gates's key role in these events," said Houck, "the only explanation for his failure to appear is his lack of intestinal fortitude." Calling Bill Gates...
...click the Advanced tab, scroll down to the Cookies subsection and choose "Disable all cookie use." If you use Netscape Navigator, go to Edit Preferences under the Edit menu and choose Advanced, then "Turn all cookies off." But be warned: many sites won't let you in if your browser rejects cookies, and others will harass you with dialogue boxes urging you to accept...