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...most popular places people visit are search engines; they archive the hundreds of millions of pages that make up the World Wide Web. Yahoo, Excite, InfoSeek, Lycos and Hotbot are examples of search engines. The confusion probably stems from the fact that Netscape's and Microsoft's browsers (the Coke and Pepsi of the browser market) take you to their own home pages--which have search engines--when you start them. You can change that start page by going to the browser menu's "Internet options" on a PC or "Preferences...
Midway through the Microsoft case, and the highlights from the first half don't look good -- full of clips of Microsoft lawyers and flacks fumbling nearly everything the feds threw their way. Of course, since the government closed its case Monday, and Microsoft gets to put on its own witnesses, only a sucker could predict the winner. Yet so far, the feds have clearly scored most of the points. "David Boies put on a solid case for the government, maybe a little better than expected," says TIME's Adam Cohen. "Of course, this is only halftime, and we have...
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the colorful arbiter presiding over the jury-free Microsoft antitrust trial, yesterday interrupted Microsoft's cross-examination of the last government witness to ponder outside comments from America Online's Steve Case. Could AOL's chief become the star witness in the biggest antitrust trial since the Model T? MORE...
...what have we learned two months into this decade's Trial of the Century? For one thing, if all the Justice Department had to do to win its antitrust case was to embarrass Microsoft, Bill Gates would be in Washington right now cutting a deal. The low-light of the trial so far has been videotaped testimony in which Gates pureed meaning in a manner that surely made that other legally troubled Bill envious. The Master of the Desktop came across as either unbelievably ignorant about his company's operations and the suit against it or as a possible perjurer...
...course, there have been some Micromoments as well, most notably when AOL announced it was buying Netscape. Microsoft immediately seized on this as proof that, in the rough-and-tumble world of software, you have to play rough sometimes or you will most certainly get tumbled. Further, Microsoft could now argue that it couldn't have a monopoly when faced with a giant competitor. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was intrigued...