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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civil subpoenas to Microsoft competitors, including Compuserve, Netscape and Netcom, to investigate whether the software giant intentionally set up bugs in its new Windows 95 operating system to disable rival internet access programs. Since the August release of Windows 95, numerous companies have complained that Microsoft's accompanying browser, called "Plus!", conflicts and in some cases disables competing browsers when users access the internet through Windows. Don't blame us, Microsoft retorts: their software glitches are the true culprits. The company points out it even has helped its rivals to fix any problems seemingly caused by its software...
Properly displaying the information has presented somewhat of a problem as well. Most Web browsers are preconfigured to open the appropriate application according to the data it is being sent. For example, if you click on a file containing animation, the Web browser will download the file and then attempt to run the animation using a program on your computer...
...recent Microsoft Word "virus" exploited this feature. Someone wrote a destructive program using the Microsoft Word macro language which simply looked like a harmless Microsoft Word data file. If you selected the file from your Web browser, Microsoft Word would load the file and run the program, making your life miserable for the next few days...
...invent such a technology? One glance at what you can do with Java, and most people are immediately convinced that it's a good thing. And it is. Java allows you to extend the capability of your Web browser, enabling you to incorporate useful real-time applications into your browser or play nifty animations and sounds...
...animations sent to visitors' computers as little applications, or "applets." Java is supposed to screen these applets to make sure they can't do any damage to the computer that receives them. But to Sun's--and Netscape's--acute embarrassment, the version that appeared in Netscape's latest browser had a loophole big enough to let through all manner of software viruses. Netscape's programmers caught the bug last week before it could do any harm--and before they had to hand out any prizes...