Word: browsers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shattering. In two minutes, witness the rush of images, tantalizingly cryptic and yet strangely familiar. The sheer amount of creatures--humanoids, robots, wacky monsters, Yoda, etc.--Lucas shoves in two minutes is mind-boggling (but where's Chewbacca?). Plus, the detail is astounding; freeze-frame a shot on your browser and notice how "busy" each and every frame actually...
...forth and sin no more. The court could start by undoing Microsoft's past bad acts--striking down its coercive contracts with other companies and forcing it to unbundle the Internet Explorer browser that it has built into its Windows operating system. Judge Jackson could then spell out what Microsoft can and can't do in the future. He could personally monitor Microsoft's behavior, much as Judge Harold Greene oversaw AT&T for more than a decade after the breakup of the phone company...
...Tell that to Frederick Warren-Boulton, a leading economist and current Justice Department witness. Warren-Boulton offered what may well become the feds' counter-spin: That Microsoft's exclusive contracts and illegal monopoly leverage drove its bruised browser rivals into the arms of AOL. Meanwhile, a more cultural argument was being made on bulletin boards across the Internet -- that the mainstream will always appropriate successful companies that operate on the fringe. "The battle is over," wrote one AOL-phile. "AOL wins...
From the preliminary evidence presented in the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft and Bill Gates (involving the company's attempts to buy off Netscape, its chief rival in the Internet browser field) [BUSINESS, Nov. 2], it would appear that Microsoft has taken a page out of the Mafia's playbook: You want to remain in business, you have to do it our way or no way. If it is true that Microsoft used these tactics, then it sure sounds similar to extortion. BRUCE L. RIVERS Tucson, Ariz...
...still under way, but service-and-content behemoth America Online looks set to snap up Netscape in a $4 billion all-stock deal Monday. Sun Microsystems, also involved in the talks, would take over Netscape's server-end software; AOL would run the popular Netcenter portal and keep the browser itself in safe hands. Right now, AOL has an exclusive contract with Microsoft to distribute Internet Explorer to its 14 million subscribers; that agreement may expire on January 1, 1999. A deal to divide Netscape with Sun would give AOL's Steve Case a chance...