In what seems like a bid to prove that Explorer and Windows are not, as Justice contends, separate products, Microsoft VP Brad Chase wrote manufacturers Monday that recent versions of Windows 95 were so dependent on Explorer that when you have taken out all of those files, you get a version of Windows 95 that doesn't boot. Antitrust hounds may smell a rat, however can none of the mighty brains at Redmond debug that little problem?
Microsoft's Choice
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WASHINGTON: Get set for a showdown. Following Mondays decision by Microsoft to appeal a judges order to unbundle their browser from Windows 95, an official at the DOJ told the press that the software giant isnt complying with the judges decree as it said it would. The bone of contention this time? The current version of Windows 95, which Microsoft claims wont work properly without Internet Explorer. They will offer PC makers an Explorer-free alternative a badly
out-of-date version of Windows 95 that does not include any of the
upgrades of the last two years. Such a Hobsons choice violates the spirit, if not the letter of the judges order, said the anonymous DOJ source.