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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (20961)	9/14/1998 5:03:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Back to Basics zdnet.com Oops. I missed last week's piece by the esteemed Mary Jo Foley, about the software program formerly known as the web browser. In its August 31 response to Microsoft's request for summary judgement, the DOJ reiterated some key charges that aren't based on any amendments to the suit it filed in May. One of these involved Microsoft's recasting of "browsers" as "Internet technology." The DOJ explained Microsoft's strategy to shift the case away from product-tying charges as follows: "Microsoft in its recent papers (and in the testimony of its deponents -- except when they slip) studiously avoids the term `browser.' 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, in the interest of Microsoft's litigation arguments it becomes a non-word. Witnesses claim they don't know what a browser is. What used to be browsers are now simply `bits' of `browsing technologies.' Microsoft's refusal to recognize the existence of a browser extends not only to the `integrated' browser but to the stand-alone products Microsoft offers." I guess that last refers to the "bits of browsing technology" you can get for the Mac and Unix. The neologistics department in its finest hour. Needless to say, Orwell would be impressed. Cheers, Dan.