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To: puborectalis who wrote (29)	2/25/1999 8:25:00 PM
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Moby Dick was a whale that ruled the sea like MSFT rules the software industry...no wonder he thought of it! Silicon Valley News Breaking News - Latest Headlines - AP Technology - Reuters Technology - Reuters Internet In-Depth News Viewpoints Special Reports Tech News Archive In Time For Good Morning SV Asia Tech Israel Tech Tech Stocks Internet Daily BizBits Columns Dan Gillmor Adam Lashinsky Talk is Cheap SV Dispatches Tech Test Drive Modem Driver Term Sheet Minister of Info Companies Companies db VC Survey Investing - Motley Fool Job Hunter Salary Survey Company Watch - Apple - Intel - Microsoft Personal Computing Posted at 1:54 p.m. PST Thursday, February 25, 1999 Removing Browser Would 'Butcher' Windows-Microsoft BY DAVID LAWSKY WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Microsoft official testified Thursday that he refused to permit computer makers to change the Windows operating system because it would be like tearing out a chapter of Moby Dick. Joachim Kempin, a top company executive, was defending Microsoft against government antitrust charges. The allegations against Microsoft include a charge it tied its Web browser to its popular operating system to gain market share for the browser. Government lawyer David Boies asked Kempin about the efforts of some computer makers to replace the icon for Microsoft's browser with an icon for the competing Netscape Communications browser. The icon is a symbol used to start a computer program. ''As you know the browser is part of Windows,'' Kempin said. ''We did not like people to butcher the Windows operating system ... We design our products with a certain amount of pride and we are keen that they get presented to the user as we presented them.'' He said changes would be like tearing out a chapter of the novel Moby Dick.