Netscape CEO James Barksdale returns to witness stand Wednesday. Barksdale, the first witness cross-examined in the government's landmark antitrust trial, said he learned from a Netscape salesman that Microsoft had threatened to yank Compaq Computer's license to use Windows on its personal computers if it subbed Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser with Netscape's Navigator.
Browsers are programs used to view Web pages.
I don't recall. Microsoft contends Explorer is an integral part of Windows and can't be removed. But it insists that it has never stopped PC makers from adding other software or browsers to Windows. Warden asked Barksdale. Government lawyers, however, say the analogy falls short because there is competition in the browser market, but Windows is packaged with nearly all PCs.