In Microsoft's Juggernaut, It's Hard to Tell Track from Engine.(Originated from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 1997 by Newman, Michael

Oct. 21--Like much else in the world of high technology, Microsoft's troubles with the Justice Department can be traced to a buzzword. In this case, Microsoft's own buzzword may come back to haunt it.

Essentially, the Justice Department is saying that Windows 95 and Internet Explorer, two of Microsoft's most popular products, work too well together. Microsoft, of course, replies that it designed them that way. In computerese, the programs are "integrated" -- or even "tightly integrated," to use the preferred modifier.

Since the summer, both Microsoft and its chief rival Netscape have been engaged in a ferocious marketing campaign over which browser better "integrates" the information of the Word Wide Web and the information inside the user's...

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