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Really. "This is the most important thing that will happen to the Web next year," says Bob Glushko, Tenenbaum's point man on XML and director of CommerceNet's for-profit spinoff, CNGroup. "XML," says Eckart Walther, product manager for browser leader Netscape, which, along with archrival Microsoft, has already climbed aboard the XML bandwagon, "is going to be as big as the Web itself...
Unthinkably evil, you say? Well, he's already taken a tentative step in that direction. Try to access Microsoft's popular online gaming site, the Zone, using Netscape's browser or a Mac machine for a taste of the power Gates could eventually wield. "We're sorry," reads the otherwise blank page. "The new Zone doesn't currently support Microsoft Windows 3.x; or Apple Macintosh or Unix (R) operating systems, or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 2.0 or Netscape Navigator browsers." Resistance is futile...
...Gates before it's too late. Klein confirmed last week that his investigation of Microsoft remains "ongoing and wide-ranging." Microsoft's planned integration of Explorer into Windows 98 could trigger the most critical antitrust battle since the feds broke up Ma Bell in '84. Gates understands that the browser is the soul of the new machine that will carry us all into the 21st century, and he won't back down. "The point of antitrust law," Myhrvold argues, "is to say, 'Is there a situation that will harm consumers' interests?' And we feel very strongly that, no, this doesn...
...simply picks his targets as he sees them. "I'm not an ideologue or a crusader," he says. "Our principle is that any consumer should have a choice in what he chooses to buy. But that's not the case when [computer makers must] automatically add Microsoft's Internet browser." Nor does Klein feel overmatched on high-tech issues. "I'm online," he says. "I know what a browser...
Klein began probing Microsoft's browser-licensing practices partly in response to furious complaints from rival softwaremakers like Netscape. That Silicon Valley company, which is fighting to keep its 60% share of the browser market from being overrun by Microsoft, has so far handed over thousands of pages of documents. As Klein sees it, the ultimate goal in the case is to keep Bill Gates or anyone else from blocking innovation in the markets for software and personal computers. "This is an enormously challenging time in terms of the application of antitrust law to a fast-moving industry," Klein says...