Word: browser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...criticism is not just that he is successful but that he has tried to leverage, unfairly and perhaps illegally, Microsoft's near monopoly in desktop operating systems in ways that would let him dominate everything from word processing and spreadsheets to Web browsers and content. The company is integrating its Internet Explorer browser and Microsoft Network content into its Windows operating system, a process that will culminate with the "Active Desktop" planned for Windows 97, due out in a few months. Critics see a pattern of Microsoft's playing hardball to make life difficult for competing operating systems and applications...
Security First National Bank (www.snfb.com) is an FDIC-insured bank that offers services strictly over the Internet; there is no local branch to visit. To deposit funds, you use ATMs or direct deposit; all bill payments are done over the Web with a secure browser like Netscape or Internet Explorer...
...bathetic cover and cover story insinuate that a better mousetrap may somehow confer ownership of the Internet upon Microsoft's CEO. Why don't I, a Windows 95 and Netscape user, feel threatened by your ridiculous proposition that control of the information age rests on the outcome of a browser war between a benign James Barksdale and a threatening, Pattonesque Bill Gates? Let them build and offer their mousetraps to the market, which welcomes and benefits from the competition between the two. JOSEPH D. ADAMS Painter, Virginia Via E-mail...
...niche applications in business and certain of the sciences, of what practical use are computers or the Internet? The minor applications in business and research are valuable, but otherwise computers look to me like nothing more than expensive toys--Barbie dolls for spoiled and bored grownups--and the Internet browser programs look suspiciously like this year's dresses for Barbie. MARTY MELTZER Morton Grove, Illinois...
...that's where the real struggle in this battle lies. Netscape and Microsoft are competing not against each other so much as against their own obsolescence. The victor will be not the company with the best browser but the team that can run the longest on this insanely fast product-development treadmill...