The Justice Department took Microsoft to court accusing it of abusing its monopoly in operating systems to undermine competition on the applications side. Jackson found that Microsoft's use of its monopoly was indeed illegal and ruled last week that the company be split into an operating systems company and an applications company. During the trial, Microsoft had come under fire for bundling its Explorer Internet browser with the Windows operating system, edging out competitors such as Netscape. On Tuesday, Gates said a combined browser and operating system was a key demand from customers. What's been challenged is the fact that we supported the Internet with Windows.
Every operating system needs to support the Internet.
There's nothing more obvious that customers are asking for.