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The DoJ Ain't Buyin' It (11/21/97)
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The latest round in Microsoft's grudge match with the U.S. Department of Justice occurred yesterday, when the DoJ urged Judge Thomas Penfeld Jackson to body-slam Bill & Co. with a $1 million-a-day fine for violating a 1995 federal court order. You know the drill by now: the DoJ claims that Microsoft is forcing Wintel manufacturers to ship machines preloaded with Internet Explorer; Microsoft claims that--get this--MSIE is an integrated component of Windows 95. (Hee, hee... that still kills us.)

Since Microsoft does not have Steve Jobs' patented Reality Distortion Field®, they appear unable to feed the DoJ this load of hooey; justice lawyers yesterday stated that "Microsoft seeks to rewrite this history... by attempting to characterize the Internet Explorer as an 'integrated' component of Windows 95, rather than a separate product." But imagine if Bill did get a hold of Steve's mass-hypnosis device... Microsoft would be unstoppable! A scary thought, indeed.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/21/97 episode:

November 21, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 199: Stocking Stuffers (11/21/97)   So your LC II is feeling a little pokey and you've been looking longingly at the specs for the new Powermac G3's, but your budget won't let you spring for such an extravagant early Christmas present to yourself...

  • 201: Holding Five Aces (11/21/97)   Meanwhile, circumstantial evidence pointing to other Microsoft anticompetitive practices continues to mount. The gents at MacOS Rumors report that they've collected some 200-odd examples of "suspicious" behavior by Microsoft's browsers and web servers, including today's report by a reader who found that he was unable to download Netscape Communicator while using Internet Explorer 3.01...

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