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...Come), the $3 million Quantum Project wants to be the Jazz Singer of cybercinema--a landmark for the millennial medium. "The Net is a mirror for the way human beings think," says Bain. "Hypertext is the bedrock for a whole new nonlinear art form. When you're clicking your browser from site to site, you're exploring chaos theory. The scenes have no connection, except in your head. Quantum Project is like that. It's not just nonlinear, it's noncontextual. It cuts together stuff that has meaning in ways that are insightful...
...Office introduced a new feature known as a toolbar. We now take toolbars for granted. If you are reading this article online on a Windows PC, the toolbar is the series of icons at the foot of your screen that with one click allows you to switch from your browser to your word processor or your e-mail. Had those toolbars been created elsewhere, they no doubt would have been patented and never incorporated into Windows. Once added to Windows, toolbars became available for use in software programs created by Microsoft and thousands of independent companies. That is the great...
...scheme permanently prohibits any further improvements to the Internet software in Windows. It would mean no improvements in browser technology and no support for new standards or technologies that would otherwise have helped protect your privacy or the safety of your children online...
...would a breakup prevent future Netscapes--whose browser Microsoft ran over--from being illegally squashed? "It's a gamble," says lawyer and economist Robert Litan, of the Brookings Institution, who once worked for the Justice Department's antitrust division. Litan, who believes the Feds should go even further, joined three fellow economists in a separate brief that called for Microsoft to be split into three competing pieces. The trouble with Klein's remedy, Litan argues, is that where once there was one monopoly there now could be two--the applications and Windows sides--with the possibility that they will find...
...beauty of this approach is that Microsoft would have leeway to develop its operating system as it sees fit, according to what the market wants. It could integrate a browser or anything else. But the dynamics of the market would restrain it. It couldn't leverage Microsoft Word and Office Suite to protect a monopoly in the operating system, so competing operating platforms could spring up. And during a transition phase, there would be rules allowing computer makers and developers to promote competition so that the best products...