Word: browser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Gates--the man knows when to swallow hard and cut a deal. At first blush, the abrupt announcement last week that Microsoft had settled one round of its continuing dispute with the Federal Government--by agreeing to let PC makers remove the icon for the company's Web browser, Internet Explorer, from their machines' desktops--looked like abject capitulation. But as usual, the closer you look, the craftier the CEO's reasoning seems...
...force of the federal bench behind him, so even Bill Gates listened--perhaps this time a bit too closely. In hearings two weeks ago, the combatants conducted an intricate dissection of the injunction's language. Jackson's prose demanded that Microsoft stop forcing vendors to include "any Microsoft Internet browser software (including Internet Explorer 3.0, 4.0, or any successor versions thereof)" on their Windows machines. O.K., Microsoft lawyers asked Justice, pointing to a long, obscure list of .DLL and .EXE program files, then which ones belong to Explorer and which to Windows95...
...politics works in America. The way capitalism works is this: strategists at such vendors as Dell and Compaq let it be known that they had no plans to offend the company that rules their industry by accepting an offer made with a gun to its head. Meanwhile, Gates' browser rival, Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, held his own Thursday press conference, seizing this window of Microsoft vulnerability to announce that not only will he start distributing Netscape's Navigator browser for free, just like Microsoft, but that he will also give away his crown jewels--the browser's source code--inviting...
...year earlier, an enterprising researcher inGeneva had written the software that laid thefoundation for what became the World Wide Web. Thefirst Web "browser" was released in 1991, and thenumber of Web servers--the equivalent of printingpresses in cyberspace--jumped from 50 in 1993, tofour million in 1995, and over 16 million...
...Microsoft has agreed to immediately make available the most up-to-date, fully functional version of Windows 95 without forcing computer manufacturers to takes its browser as well," said Joel Klein, the trust-busting assistant attorney general. "This will increase consumer choice and will also send precisely the right message to the market...