To: Keith Hankin who wrote (20796 ) 9/2/1998 12:46:00 PM From: Daniel Schuh Read Replies (1) | Respond to
U.S. Faults Depositions of Microsoft's Executives nytimes.com "Executives who are stated to be the author of documents claim not to remember writing them," government lawyers wrote. "Executives who are the stated recipients of documents claim not to remember receiving them. And both authors and recipients claim not to know what the documents mean." Although browser is a term used throughout Microsoft's documents and licenses, the industry literature, and even in the dictionary Microsoft publishes for software professionals," the brief says, "in the interest of Microsoft's litigation arguments it becomes a nonword. Witnesses claim they don't know what a browser is. What used to be browsers are now simply 'bits of browsing technologies."' To all of this evidence, Murray said: "In every case, the government is misrepresenting Microsoft's business relationships with other companies. We meet with hundreds of companies to make them aware of our technology plans and to promote the tools in our operating system and to insure that our products and their products work well together. Microsoft has never tried to divide any market, period."
