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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (22122)	12/13/1998 6:17:00 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 24154

Expert says Microsoft could remove Web browser Ordinarily in such cases, antitrust law forbids a company from tying a monopoly product to another product in order to force it on customers. But a company can defend itself against a charge of "tying" by showing that it integrated two products to achieve efficiencies that benefit consumers. Microsoft has asserted such efficiencies exist. Felten disagreed. In fact, he testified that there were "significant inefficiencies" by integrating the operating system and Web browser. "The unwanted software needlessly uses resources such as disk space and memory and increases the complexity of the user interface by cluttering it with unwanted icons, menu items and programs," he testified. uniontrib.com