tegrated", Klein proposed to fine the company $1 million a day until the two products are unbundled. In its defense, Microsoft claims that Windows 95 cannot perform several crucial tasks, like word processing, imaging, and drawing unless all Explorer files are installed. DOJ rejoins that Microsoft did not have to make Windows dependent upon the browser and could easily have allowed computer manufacturers to "uninstall" Explorer without endangering the operating system. Internet Explorer is more than a bunch of enabling files and more than an applet (a mini-applications i.e. Notepad). It is an elaborately developed Web browser, capable of standing alone and, in fact, was originally sold by Microsoft as a full-featured, independent application. Nevertheless similar products, also tied to Windows, have survived government scrutiny. MSN, for example, is a full-featured, independent application, yet DOJ allowed it to be packaged with Windows as a joint product. The DOJ introduced a new rule that products initially distributed in separate boxes must be permanently distributed in separate boxes. It is as if air-conditioning, once sold as a later-installed option in cars, must be forever so sold like that. More importantly, insists Microsoft, two products can be "integrated" even if they are not technically interdependent. The products need not function only in combination, nor be marketed only as a package. To be characterized as "integrated," they just need to be combined in a manner that creates synergism, a whole that is better than the sum of its parts. According to Microsoft, that characterization applies no less to the current product package than it did in the 1980s when operating systems first included software that allowed interaction with hard disk drives, or later when operating systems began supporting local area networks. Again there is more proof of Microsoft not being a monopoly and abiding by the rules of the DOJ. Today, fax mo...
