Word: middlewareã
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...actions by Microsoft were designed to stifle possible innovations in the computer industry. As the district court found and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld, the company feared that “middleware?? such as Netscape’s browser and Sun’s Java would allow greater freedom to choose alternative operating systems with the same functionality. Microsoft’s decisions to prevent consumers from removing Internet Explorer, to require distributors to give Explorer prominent placement on the desktop, and to subvert the Java standard by building its own proprietary version were intended...
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