Microsoft is again assailed by agency, which says firm thwarts court order
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In a federal court filing on Dec 29, 1997, the Justice Department contented that Microsoft could have used the simple instructions posted in its own Web site to separate the Internet Explorer browser from the Windows 95 OS. In the ongoing case against Microsoft, the US Justice Department rejected Microsoft's claim that its Internet Explorer technology is an integral part of the Windows 95 OS and the 'uninstall' method leaves 97% of the Explorer code in the OS. The government accused Microsoft of 'jerry-rigging' its products and offering a worthless version of Windows 95 to vendors. Earlier in Dec, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson successfully separated the browser and the OS in less than 90 seconds using the 'uninstall' feature in the Windows 95 OS. Microsoft claims that the government does not understand the software industry and is unnecessarily meddling in software design.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
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Digital says it will enter a new market
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DEC announces that it will enter the massively parallel computer market by 1992. Massively parallel architecture links large numbers of small processors to function as a single unit. DEC is researching massively parallel architectures for scientific and technical computers. Company officials say DEC's efforts are concentrating on software development because lack of software is perceived as the greatest barrier to the use of massively parallel systems in business. DEC may participate in a joint venture with MasPar Computer Corp. A massively parallel computer from Thinking Machines Corp has won an independent test for computing speed, performing 5.2 billion floating-point operations per second.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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