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...Justice Department made headway in its long-delayed antitrust investigation into the Redmond, Wash. company, accusing Microsoft of using Internet Explorer to destroy Netscape Corp. and win a monopoly in the Internet browser market...
...Tops in Buffalo, N.Y., sales of shiitake mushrooms have doubled this year. Clinique is marketing a perfume called Happy, and Levi Strauss sells custom-fit riveted jeans based on customers' computer-detailed specifications. The youngest donors ever to endow a chair at Stanford are the founders of Internet browser Yahoo!--even the chair comes with an exclamation point...
...unstoppable force that is Microsoft and the immovable object that is the Justice Department's antitrust division. As expected, Microsoft is appealing Judge Thomas Jackson's temporary order to stop using its Windows 95 monopoly as a stick to force computer makers to adopt its Internet Explorer Web browser. Microsoft claims the two products are inseparable. If the judge insists, however, it is willing to offer computer makers a choice between Windows 95 with Explorer built in and a two-year-old, "dumbed down" version so obsolete that it doesn't work with the newest software products...
...real battleground, of course, is not Windows 95 but Windows 98, the next incarnation of Microsoft's cash cow, into which its Web browser is even more tightly knit. The implications of the shots fired last week are clear: selling two versions of Win 98, one browser-enabled, the other crippled, won't satisfy anyone...
...official: Windows 98 is in play. Last week Federal Judge THOMAS PENFIELD JACKSON ordered Microsoft to stop forcing PC makers to include its Explorer Web browser on Windows 95 machines, at least until Harvard law professor LAWRENCE LESSIG completes a study of the company's business practices as they relate to federal antitrust law. A Lessig conclusion that Microsoft's plan to knit Explorer into the upcoming Windows 98 system violates antitrust statutes could mean the biggest antitrust battle since the Feds broke up Ma Bell in the 1980s. The stakes? Just the future of Windows; which...