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Zittrain also accused Microsoft of creating a more feature-rich Java virtual machine--an application which runs programs written in Sun Microsystem's Java language--simply to render it incompatible with Java virtual machines running on other platforms, thus prompting the poisoned coffee reference...
...wrap Microsoft's long arms around it. He launched the Microsoft Network and--over the objections of America Online, CompuServe and the U.S. Justice Department--bundled it with Internet-access software in Windows 95. He dropped his resistance to a number of de facto Internet standards, including Sun Microsystem's Java. Meanwhile, he began securing high-profile content to put on his own network, luring commentator Michael Kinsley from cnn to start an online political magazine and purchasing the Bettmann Archives, one of the world's greatest collections of historical photographs. Last week he appeared in an electronic press conference...