Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed remedies are raising eyebrows even higher. Klein, effectively, wants Microsoft either to ship Windows without Explorer or to bundle Navigator as well; allow PC makers to modify their desktops at will and remove Explorer if they so desire; and let online services that have Windows deals promote the Netscape browser anyway. Microsoft responds that stripping Explorer from Windows 98 would mean rewriting significant parts of an operating system that contains 18.2 million lines of code, thus greatly hampering its release--a dubious definition of consumer protection...
Such talk was partly the bravado of engineers who recognize that everything in the universe ends in entropy and disarray. It's also the organized religion of any successful start-up: We're working 120 hours a week, and we may be doomed even if we ship our code on time--but at least we're doomed together, so back to work...
...Another suggested that Microsoft either remove or turn off the Explorer browser that is even more thoroughly knit into Windows 98 than it was into Win 95. A third, according to Microsoft, was that the company include a copy of Navigator in every copy of Win 98 that it ships. "It would be a lot like asking Coca-Cola to ship three Pepsis with every six-pack," a Microsoft official fumed afterward...
...Microsoft, it's a bitterly phyrric victory. Windows 98 will ship on June 15, and the marketing blitz will be launched ten days later. But a mere three months of sales down the road, Redmond gets hauled before the judge -- potentially, to get its browser ripped out for good. "This is a very fast track," says antitrust law expert William Kovacic. "For a monopoly case, the time to trial is routinely a minimum of two to three years." William Neukom and the rest of Redmond's legal team had better put the coffee...
...People don't want to ship their couch or their refrigerator home, so they leave it there," Rissmiller says...