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Judge Orders Microsoft To Stop Bundling The Internet With WindowsFEBRUARY 18, 2000 · 08:07
In the most consequential ruling in the history of personal computing, a federal judge told the largest software company on earth that it may not ship its web browser free with its operating system. The company says it will appeal. It has been appealing for four years already, to itself.
THE INTERNET, AS SEEN BY A JUDGE. PHOTO NOT AVAILABLE. THE JUDGE WOULD NOT LET ANYONE TAKE ONE.
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THE INTERNET, AS SEEN BY A JUDGE. PHOTO NOT AVAILABLE. THE JUDGE WOULD NOT LET ANYONE TAKE ONE.
SEATTLE, February 18 -- A federal judge today ordered Microsoft to change the way it sells Windows, saying that bundling a web browser with the operating system constituted an illegal monopoly on the way millions of people reach the internet.
The ruling does not require Microsoft to stop making a browser. It requires the company to stop giving one away as part of the deal, which is the difference everybody will feel and nobody can describe.
Analysts estimate the ruling could cost the company several billion dollars a year. Microsoft said it would appeal, would comply in the meantime "in a manner that is consistent with the law," and would continue working very hard to make it easier for people to use its products, which it has been saying since 1975.
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· not a place · 2 minutes later
this thread has more comments than the article has paragraphs. that is the internet in one sentence.
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· a recliner · same afternoon
OldAndBald wrote:
Judge Orders Microsoft To Stop Bundling The Internet With Windows does anyone else find it completely unhinged that this is on the internet. we put a man on the moon. we can put THIS on the internet.
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· a modem · that evening
buy the stock. i am not a financial adviser. i am a man with a modem.
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· Newark, NJ · the next morning
my dial-up is screaming and i am not sorry
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· Tacoma, WA · the following day
xX_BIG_SANDBOX_Xx wrote:
does anyone else find it completely unhinged that this is on the internet. we put a man on the moon. we can pu... i have been on since 1995 and i can tell you exactly what this is worth: nothing.
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