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...behaved better during the four-hour grilling before a Senate panel presided over by Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah--especially given the adversarial trap that had been set for him. Room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building has seen its share of drama. But for sheer media mass--as measured by the number of cameras--Gates' first congressional testimony was great one-day theater...
...desktop. They wanted to hear why Microsoft decided to make its Internet browser inseparable from its operating system, Windows 95. And they wanted to know how the company set the price for the browser at zero. "I think there is a single, basic question underlying our inquiry," said chairman Hatch. "Is there a danger that monopoly power is--or could be--used to stifle innovation in the U.S. software industry today...
...only thing on which Gates, his competitors and the Senators agreed was that further antitrust legislation is unnecessary. The real issue is how to enforce existing laws. Hatch plans to schedule yet another hearing--this time without Gates...
...Perhaps Hatch felt slighted that he didn't get any of the brownies and cookies Microsoft sent to another Senator after the hearing. No matter. It's unlikely Gates is hankering to return. The 42-year-old Harvard dropout may be the world's smartest and richest businessman, but as he learned last week, that and $1.60 get you a cup of chowder in the Rayburn cafeteria...
Gates will be joined at the witness table by archrival CEOs JIM BARKSDALE of Netscape and SCOTT MCNEALY of Sun. But Gates won't face a stacked deck: he persuaded Hatch to have Microsoft-friendly witnesses balance out the panel. Gates will be escorted to the hearing by Senator SLADE GORTON of Washington State, who wants Hatch to be nice to his famous constituent. It's a favor Gorton can return: he's chairman of the subcommittee that controls Interior spending, which affects many of Hatch's Utah constituents...