nted to divide the browser market, with Microsoft becoming the sole provider of browsers for Windows and Netscape the sole provider for all other operating systems. Netscape refused to participate in Microsoft's illegal scheme. If courts determine that this in fact did take place, then Microsoft's conduct was in deed anticompetitive. Microsoft's exclusionary agreements with Internet Content Providers (ICPs) to provide direct Internet access to select ICPs appearing on the "active desktop" feature of Windows. In return for the ICP's agreement not to pay browser competitors or distribute their browsers for distribution, marketing, or promotion; to not promote any browser produced by Microsoft's primary browser competitors; to not allow any competitors to promote that ICP's "channel" content on or for their browsers; and to design its web sites using Microsoft-specific, proprietary programming extentions so that those sites look better when viewed with Internet explorer than when viewed with a competing browser....
