Word: browser
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...achieve a monopoly, but not to use one to wedge your way into other lines of business. Klein calls actions like the nasty one Microsoft is accused of taking against Compaq--threatening its largest PC partner with the revocation of its Windows license if Compaq chose Netscape's Web browser, Navigator, over Microsoft's competing Explorer--clear violations of the law. Gates and his supporters, by contrast, steadfastly insist (cue the Star-Spangled Banner sound track) that every deal they've ever struck is just another example of the company's ongoing effort to give the American consumer more...
...came down, unsurprisingly, to the browser. Microsoft's statement Saturday confirmed that Gates was willing to modify his licensing agreements with computer manufacturers to let them decide which products and services they could feature on their own machines. But Klein wasn't interested in settling for another minor pact reminiscent of his predecessor Anne Bingaman's infamous 1994 consent decree, now widely derided as a sellout that only postponed the day of reckoning. The deal, struck in 1994 and ratified in '95, granted Microsoft the right to sell "integrated" products--i.e., software like Windows that combines more functions than...
...antitrust chief sees it, the computer industry is at a historic turning point. Web browsers are indeed the on-ramp to cyberspace; letting Microsoft weave its browser software into the very fabric of Windows could leave the company with an uncomfortably firm grip on the unfathomable riches of the burgeoning world of online commerce. With a browser monopoly, Microsoft could give preferential treatment to services it owns or has contracts with. Anybody wanting to reach the largest number of Web surfers would have to pass through what analysts are starting to call the Microsoft tunnel...
...browser is only the current example--albeit very attention getting--of the momentous legal principle that's at stake here. For beyond Explorer lies the endless stream of new technology products that will define the way we use tomorrow's computers--indeed, the way we live our very lives: voice and handwriting recognition. Banking and personal finance software. Real-time video and Internet television systems. Security and encryption programs. The Justice Department's view is that letting Microsoft integrate one new breakthrough after another into an OS that, at least for the foreseeable future, most of humanity will have little...
...Microsoft was unlikely ever to grant. One demand, according to Microsoft, was that the company hide the Windows opening screen and let anyone in the software industry--except Microsoft--compete to offer a new one to PC makers. Another suggested that Microsoft either remove or turn off the Explorer browser that is even more thoroughly knit into Windows 98 than it was into Win 95. A third, according to Microsoft, was that the company include a copy of Navigator in every copy of Win 98 that it ships. "It would be a lot like asking Coca-Cola to ship three...