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标题: 微软称美司法部已承认IE是Win95的集成特性
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Dec 26 21:06:36 1997)

微软称美司法部已承认IE是Win95的集成特性

http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/

Microsoft is in Full Compliance with Preliminary Injunction
DOJ's Request for New Court Order Shows Internet Explorer is
Integrated

In court papers filed on Dec. 23, Microsoft said the Justice
Department's latest motion before U.S. District Court Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson shows that Internet Explorer is an
integrated feature of the Windows 95 operating system, contrary
to what the DOJ has been saying for the last two months.

Just three weeks ago, the Justice Department argued in court
that Internet Explorer 3.0 is not an integrated feature of
Windows 95, that the operating system would work fine without
Internet Explorer, and that Microsoft should be required to
license Windows 95 to computer manufacturers that way. Although
Microsoft had previously argued in legal papers and in court that
Windows 95 won't work without Internet Explorer 3.0, the company
complied with a court order requiring it to make such an option
available to computer manufacturers.

"Now, the DOJ has apparently recognized that Internet Explorer
is an important part of Windows 95, and is arguing that Microsoft
should be required to make Windows 95 available with nearly all
of Internet Explorer added back into the product, but hidden from
customers so that the feature is hard to use," said William H.
Neukom, senior vice president for law and corporate affairs at
Microsoft. "Microsoft has done precisely what the DOJ requested
and what the Court ordered. We have followed both the spirit and
the letter of the court's preliminary injunction. Now that the
DOJ understands the implications of its prior position, it wants
to play by a new set of rules."

Microsoft also filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals its reply in
support of its motion for expedited treatment of its appeal from
the preliminary injunction. In addition, Microsoft filed a motion
asking the U.S. District Court to reconsider its appointment of a
special master, in order to ensure fairness and to address a
number of legal and procedural issues.

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