But it turned out that the videotape may have been of a machine running an unaltered Windows 98. If shadenfreude is your cup of tea, later in the multi-year trial there was even the highly amusing moment when Microsoft had entered into evidence videotape purporting to show that a version of Windows 98 (yes, it took that long) was sluggish if IE was removed. Clearly someone accidentally dropped some super glue into the code. Mind you, Windows 95 originally shipped without IE. ![]() The DOJ argued that it was "technically feasible and practical" to separate IE from Windows 95 - which, as you may remember, was a GUI integrated into a souped-up version of DOS - and Microsoft insisted that it was impossible. Remember, this was at a time when Netscape Communications existed separate from AOL and had its own popular browser. District Judge Thomas Penfield to toss an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice and a number of states. We're in a federal court room, and Microsoft is busy trying to get U.S. Let me take you back to early September of 1998. of materials to short periods of severe loading and extreme deformation. Oh, right - this is exactly what Microsoft had once told U.S. across the globe and installed on any supported MS Windows 64-bit machine. ![]() But, wait - there's something really familiar sounding about all of this. ![]() ![]() The move is intended to satisfy European Union regulators and their antitrust investigation into the company. Microsoft has announced a special edition of Windows 7 that won't include Internet Explorer 8.
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