Word: internetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates: Certainly the worst thing that could happen is for people to be confused and think that we're not in a hypercompetitive environment. Windows is facing competition from Internet terminal devices, Linux and other things. One of the ironies of this decision is that it says there are these serious competitors coming along, and then it defines the market in such a way that those competitors don't even exist...
...that got the government to act on its behalf. The irony is that Netscape was bought for $10 billion by the dominant online provider [AOL]. Netscape shareholders did super well, consumers did super well, and what we did with Windows is what we should be doing, because people want Internet support in the operating system. It's a commonsense thing that has been lost in all the rhetoric...
Gates: The key thing the ruling says is that Microsoft, by creating better Internet support [i.e., embedding a browser into Windows], made it tougher for the guy [Netscape] who was competing with us. In fact, that's exactly what we're supposed to do on behalf of consumers...
Gates: This question is a little bit of a repeat of what was in front of the courts last year. There was the question in the case of Windows 95 whether it was O.K. for us to add Internet support into that. Judge Jackson entered a preliminary injunction, and the appeals court couldn't have been more black-and-white in rejecting everything he had done there. [The appeals judges] went out of the way to state the general principle that the courts won't be involved in software design...
Gates: Soon you'll have not only your PC as an Internet device; you're also going to have phones with screens, Web TV and digital set-top boxes. So the question is, How do you put all these pieces together so that it's easy for users, and they don't have to move all their information around? We call this the personal Web. Instead of you going to a Web page and it deciding what you're interested in, you'll be able to pick pieces of information from different websites. You'll be able to create applications...