Word: pc
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...time might be different, though the outcome of the present imbroglio matters primarily as a harbinger of the momentous battle looming on the horizon. The current, narrowly focused suit hinges on whether Explorer is already an "integrated" portion of Windows--in which case Microsoft has the right to force PC makers to include it--or remains an independent product piggybacking on Windows, which would leave Microsoft in violation of the '95 deal. "They've treated it as a separate product," says Netscape general counsel Roberta Katz. "They've advertised it separately; they've produced it separately; they've sold...
...next year Gates plans to integrate Explorer into Windows 98, in keeping with his belief that navigating your PC should be no different from cruising the Web itself. "We don't think we can make an operating system in the late 1990s," says chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, "that doesn't integrate with...
...course, a grand isn't chump change for most people in society, but it's a lot better than the good ol' monopoly pricing we've seen in the PC's lifetime. And experts predict that prices could plummet again soon, perhaps to the $500 point in a matter of years. Whatever you think of Microsoft and Intel's hegemony over the old market, wish the new chip-makers luck; cheaper computers are in everyone's interest...
Claiming that Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Attorney General Janet Reno stunned the software industry Monday afternoon by asking a federal court to hold the company in contempt for forcing PC makers to license it's browser, Internet Explorer, along with its desktop software, Windows '95. Reno also asked that Microsoft pay a fine of $1 million a day until the company changed its distribution practices. "Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly," Reno told reporters...
...appropriate and lawful mannerare operating in a completely lawful manner," it quoted William H. Neukom, Microsoft's Senior Vice President for Law and Corporate Affairs, as saying. "The consent decree specifically explicitly states that allows Microsoft to may integrate new features into the operating system that it licenses to PC manufacturers without violating the decree...