Microsoft wins browser appeal.(Microsoft Corp. wins federal appeals court ruling to allow it to make its Internet Explorer browser part of Windows)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, June, 1998 by Tedesco, Richard

Court accents integration argument; company ships Windows 98 with Explorer Microsoft Corp. won a ruling from a federal appeals court last week that will allow it to make its Internet Explorer browser part of Windows and to gain legal leverage against the Department of Justice. The ruling was partly an endorsement of Microsoft's integration argument-which says that the browser is an enhancement of its operating system-and partly a critique of an injunction against a Microsoft requirement that the browser be included in its PC packages.

"Microsoft plausibly characterizes the LE that it provides to end users as an operating system upgrade, as does its rival Netscape," wrote U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Judge Stephen Williams. ...

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