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...week that if it were a monopoly, Microsoft would charge at least 16 times as much for Windows as it actually does. Microsoft makes much of the fact that the government's economist, Franklin Fisher, testified that consumers weren't being hurt by Microsoft's actions in the Internet-browser market. Of course, Fisher also said he believed there will be harm--just that it hasn't happened...
Microsoft also contends that the government's factual case--those e-mails about dividing up the Internet-browser market, the deals that reward companies for using Microsoft's browser--is based on a fundamental misunderstanding about how the computer industry works. When the company leans hard on rivals, it says, it's playing typical high-tech hardball. Oracle, Intel or Apple, Microsoft insists, would do no differently. And meetings that look collusive to lawyers in Washington are required in an industry where rival products must fit together. "There have to be some standards," says Neukom. "That means collaboration, that means...
...Internet biz. Last week At Home picked up Excite; today Yahoo throws free home page service GeoCities into its shopping basket. The latest deal makes Yahoo much bigger, second only in reach to the mighty America Online. Quite a feat if you consider that no one's browser comes preloaded with a Yahoo home page. And what a validation for GeoCities, a company that seemed absurd as recently as last year -- will anyone ever make money on free web sites...
...information about the column's topic. Invariably, I get e-mail from readers saying something like: "I tried to look up timedigital.com but I got thousands of hits. Which one is your page?" Aha! I snort. Here's a person who is still confused about the difference between a browser and a search engine! (Don't be ashamed. I have an editor who is also befuddled on this point.) Think of a browser as the 3-D glasses your computer needs to "see" things on the Web. When you launch the program and type in an address, you can visit...
...battleground that matters--the federal courthouse--Microsoft is still doing dismally. Take its central assertion that Internet Explorer is not a separate application, but an integral part of the Windows operating system. A government expert pointed out last week that Microsoft Press's computer dictionary defines a Web browser (like Explorer) as an application...