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...Microsoft certainly operates "with what sometimes seems to be relentless monopolistic zeal." Especially when it sees something it wants, like the World Wide Web. Currently, Microsoft is locked in a death match with browser king Netscape over who will control the enormous (and still mushrooming) Internet browser market. Microsoft, fresh from its Apple coup and with untold billions to throw behind its campaign, is giving away its browser for free, a deal that younger, smaller Netscape can't match. Fair competition, indeed...
While disk caching speeds up the browser, however, the directory can get huge--as large as 100 megabytes in some cases. Be sure to use the "Clear Disk Cache Now" option under Network Preferences every few months...
Your report on the U.S. Justice department's antitrust suit against Microsoft [BUSINESS, Nov. 3] had a balanced view and was well written. But the issue is not whether Microsoft is a monopoly or uses unfair practices, such as requiring its hardware partners to put its Web browser, Internet Explorer, on the computers they make. The question is, Should the government do anything about it? It ought to break Microsoft into two or three companies and then get out of the way and let them compete. CHIEH CHANG Hillsborough, Calif...
...first, we suspected hackers. But closer examination revealed an unlikely culprit: Microsoft's Internet Explorer. More precisely, the latest, just released 4.0 version of that fabled and controversial browser...
...browser, as anyone who's visited the Net knows, is the software you use to navigate the Web. You fire it up, click your mouse and "go" to a site. Simple. But the newest version of Microsoft's browser--the one that for other reasons got Gates in such hot water with Janet Reno--reverses the relationship: the Web comes to you. After you subscribe to various Web publications by clicking on a box in the new browser, a software robot employed by Microsoft scurries around gathering the latest version of those Web pages and then, periodically, "pushes" the information...