Word: browsers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gates on display just to make him look bad. The video set up Boies' third witness, Apple senior vice president Avadis Tevanian. Apple says Microsoft threatened to withhold a key piece of software--Microsoft Office for Macintosh--unless Apple joined Microsoft's war on Netscape's Internet browser. But Gates offered Boies no help on this point. Presented with what seemed to be a smoking gun--an e-mail to Gates from Microsoft executive Don Bradford saying that "Mac Office is the perfect club" to get Apple to take actions that "significantly/materially disadvantage Netscape"--Gates claimed he knew nothing about...
...week earlier, America Online senior vice president David Colburn told his own tale of being bullied into dropping Netscape and adopting Microsoft's browser. AOL switched, Colburn said, because it was the only way Microsoft would agree to put the AOL icon on the Windows desktop--a key concession. Microsoft tried to get Colburn to say AOL had switched because Microsoft's browser was technically superior--and he had internal documents suggesting that some AOL employees thought so. But the gruffly sarcastic Colburn, who went to court in cowboy boots and several days' stubble, wouldn't budge...
Here's one memo you don't want to be caught red-handed with, especially if your name is Bill Gates: "We need to continue our jihad next year." The author was Microsoft executive Brad Chase, the year was 1996, and the subject was the battle for the Internet browser market with rival Netscape. Given that Microsoft is now accused of throwing antitrust law to the wind in the single-minded pursuit of controlling that market, such language doesn't look too good. So, Mr. Gates, what exactly did Mr. Chase mean by jihad? "I think," the software boss told...
...that was just one of a number of highly embarrassing verbal contortions played for the benefit of the federal courthouse Monday. Confronted with one of his own mails in which he describes enhanced "browser share" as Microsoft's "No. 1 mission," Gates shot back: "We didn't mean browser share, we meant browser usage." Bill Clinton would be proud. Clinton, of course, didn't have to face a single judge with arbitrary power. Thomas Penfield Jackson, the man who will determine Microsoft's fate, was spotted chuckling and shaking his head as Gates tied himself in knots trying...
...site expected to be launched later this year would allow students on federal financial aid to replace envelopes and stamps with a browser by putting aid applications on the Web, eliminating mailing time and removing paperwork from the application process...