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...there's the rub. Web browsers began as simple products that let users access Web pages, but they are swiftly evolving into full-service communications programs. Netscape, for instance, whose Communicator browser retains a large market lead over Explorer, has steadily upgraded Communicator with new applications--E-mail, groupware, newsreaders--just as Microsoft does with Explorer. Browsers, Klein says, "could erode Microsoft's operating-system monopoly, because browsers take computing beyond the desktop, where Microsoft rules, and into the world of the Internet, where no one is dominant...
...same source that said we were buying CBS." As proof that the rumors are baseless, company insiders pointed to several upcoming MSN initiatives, including the release this week of a new upgrade, MSN 2.5, that offers better E-mail service and smoother integration with Microsoft's latest Web browser, Internet Explorer...
Claiming that Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Attorney General Janet Reno stunned the software industry Monday afternoon by asking a federal court to hold the company in contempt for forcing PC makers to license it's browser, Internet Explorer, along with its desktop software, Windows '95. Reno also asked that Microsoft pay a fine of $1 million a day until the company changed its distribution practices. "Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly," Reno told reporters...
...Justice Department considers those "new features" to be a browser by any other name, a separate product from the Windows desktop, and thus subject to anti-trust law. It's now up to the courts; but the early betting on Wall Street was that there's very little that the boys from Redmond can't buy/bully their way out of. A pleasant earnings reports at day's end left Microsoft stock up 1/4 at 132 1/2. Rival browser-pusher Netscape was up 4 5/16 after a early $6 rise...
...short history of the Web, August and September have been big months for browsers. Like car companies, Microsoft and Netscape use the early fall to roll out their latest creations. This year is no exception. Netscape unveiled a souped-up version of Communicator 4.0 in late August, and Microsoft will unwrap Explorer 4.0 this week. Both programs are jammed with features, most of which have the effect of making the Web more like TV. Each browser has "channels" for content, and onscreen control pads that evoke a TV remote...