The case centers on Microsoft's alleged attempts to crush competition in the Internet browser arena by using its operating systems hegemony to extend domination into this new applications area.

CNN: Top 10 IT news stories of 1998

Cornell's Creative Machines Lab posted a video this week of a computer's inner monologue, and it's making the rounds on the Internet not because the machine is having profound thoughts about world domination or the future of technology -- but because the discussion it has with itself is totally ridiculous.

CNN: Robots aren't good at talking to themselves

They point glowingly to Microsoft's total domination of the desktop, its market-leading productivity software packages, and its aggressiveness on the Internet.

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