The Department of Justice has not tried to stop Microsoft pitting its Internet Explorer browser against Netscape's Navigator.
Mr Norris said that IBM was verbally offered a financial incentive to ship Internet Explorer and not Netscape Navigator, providing what Microsoft called "no objectionable applications" were shipped.
Its own browser, Internet Explorer, has eroded Netscape's market share to little more than 50%, while Java itself has proved to be a technological work-in-progress.
It merely wants Microsoft to include Netscape Navigator alongside Explorer on its Windows system.
If they promoted and distributed Explorer--and not Netscape's Navigator--their sites would be listed on the Windows desktop.
Explorer went on to eclipse Netscape as the dominant browser software on the PC and on the Mac.
That could prove just as disastrous for IBM and Dragon Systems' competing voice-recognition software as the decision to bundle the Explorer Web browser was for Netscape.
The court hearing stems from an anti-trust suit the US Government filed last October, accusing Microsoft of using its dominance with the Windows 95 operating system to gain an unfair market share for its Internet browser, Internet Explorer, over its competitor Netscape Communications Corp.
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Internet Explorer won that round, and Netscape was discontinued in March 2008.
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Google was never a convicted monopolist who forced everyone to default to Internet Explorer in order to kill off Netscape by any means necessary.
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C. library in Alexandria, Egypt, uses a software "cobrowser" that accompanies Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Explorer and records each stop on a Web journey.
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Justice Department lawyers and 19 states brought the antitrust case in May 1998, charging that Microsoft used illegal, anti-competitive practices in bundling its Internet Explorer browser with Windows--pushing Netscape from the browser market.
He had previously played catch-up, running marketing for the Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft's counter to Netscape.
When Compaq removed Internet Explorer's screen icon in favour of Netscape's, Microsoft threatened to withdraw Compaq's licence for Windows 95.
Firefox, first launched in 2004, was the first to loosen the hold over the market that Internet Explorer attained in the late 1990s after eclipsing Netscape Communications Corp.
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Microsoft complained the suit was mostly about it bundling Microsoft Explorer with Windows, a move that killed Netscape but which was the equivalent of shipping cars with radios installed, which killed the independent car-radio merchants.
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If network effects offered long-term protection, there would have been no need for Microsoft to intimidate computer makers into helping it smash Netscape, no need to dump Explorer on the market as part of the Windows bundle.
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Microsoft, which took the lead in the Web browser market in the late 1990s, crushing would-be rival Netscape, is due to launch Internet Explorer version 7 (IE7) in the next year, and it promises a much-improved product.
Microsoft was the undisputed champ, after bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system in the 1990s and destroying Netscape.
Netscape soon fell victim to Microsoft's rival Internet Explorer browser (precipitating a long-running anti-trust case), but other companies in turn attracted investor attention.
Deprived of income from browsers by Microsoft's policy of giving away its rival Internet Explorer and then making it inseparable from the Windows operating system, Netscape has had to create alternative revenue streams.
Back in the day, Microsoft blocked the ambitions of Netscape and locked the majority of web users into its inferior Internet Explorer browser.
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When the Justice Department (and later the courts) declared, in 1998, that Microsoft was guilty of monopolistic practices for bundling a free Internet Explorer with its operating system, in order to cripple a rival browser from Netscape, Mossberg wrote that a free browser better served consumers.
After squelching an upstart Netscape in 1995-98, Microsoft basically stopped developing and improving Internet Explorer.
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