Word: browser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...added that he felt Microsoft's decision todistribute its web browser, Internet Explorer, forfree was clear evidence of antitrust violations...
...support its case, Justice has amassed reams of testimony from Gates' business partners about strong-arm tactics and restrictive licensing deals. But perhaps the most damaging evidence comes from Microsoft's own words: smoking-gun memos, e-mails and offhand remarks in which executives admit that since their browser is unlikely to win market share on its own merits, they had better tie it to Windows. "We are going to cut off [Netscape's] air supply," a Microsoft vice president allegedly brags at one point. "Everything they're selling, we're going to give away for free...
...week after a Microsoft exec asserted on TV that manufacturers had the freedom to offer their customers a choice of browsers for their computers, Gateway announced that it had obtained permission from the company to do just that. Henceforth Netscape's browser will be offered as an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer...
...leeway and actually invites scrutiny of other Redmond customs --and Gateway's too -- as other contractual restrictions close in to fill the vacuum: Gateway is making this option available only to subscribers to its Internet service, because so many other ISPs require their subscribers to use Microsoft's browser exclusively...
Even so, it's got to be good news for Netscape, whose share of the browser market continued to fall as of last January, from 63 percent of the market to 54 percent. Internet Explorer nearly doubled its presence in the same period, from 21 percent...