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To: TLindt who wrote (1809)	12/29/1997 9:59:00 PM
From: TLindt	Respond to of 4903

And this is what usually kills monoploies................... They try and breed the Government.......right!!! If it's one thing MS outa know, but doesn't......Bills a pimple on that elephants' butt. Justice Reiterates Microsoft -2: Hearing On Jan. 13 WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The Justice Department reiterated claims that Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is violating a court order that bars the company from forcing computer makers to bundle its Internet Explorer Web browser with its popular Windows software. In papers filed Monday in federal court here, government antitrust enforcers said Microsoft has responded to the order by "jerry-rigging" its own products by deleting files that need not be deleted. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a preliminary injunction Dec. 11 ordering Microsoft to stop requiring personal computer makers to use its Web browser software as a condition of licensing its Windows-operated systems. "Microsoft was free to implement any solution it saw fit that avoided the forbidden conditioning; it failed to do so," the justice said. "The relief by the United States merely enforces rather than impermissibly expands the injunction and is necessitated by Microsoft's contumacious failure to comply with the court order." Microsoft is appealing the injunction. Meantime, the company says it's in "full compliance" with court orders. A hearing on the government's contempt request is scheduled to begin Jan. 13. The government claims that Microsoft flouted the judge's ruling by not giving PC makers a meaningful option of licensing Windows 95 without the Web browser. Microsoft contends that Internet Explorer is a key part of Windows 95 that can't be removed without harming the software. That argument is key to Microsoft's defense. The government says Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree by forcing PC makers to offer Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system. By Microsoft says the Justice Department knew of its plans to incorporate the Web browser into Windows 95 even before it signed the decree. "Dow Jones News Service" "Copyright(c) 1997, Dow Jones & Company, Inc."