Internet browsers. In response, Microsoft argued that it should have the right to enhance the functionality of Windows by integrating the Internet related features into the operating system. Also in late 1997, computer company Sun Microsystems sued Microsoft, alleging that Microsoft had breached a contract for use of Sun's Java universal programming language by introducing Windows only enhancements. Microsoft temporarily settled with the Justice Department in it's anti trust case in early 1988 by agreeing to allow personal computer manufactures to offer a version of Windows 95 that did not include access to the Internet Explorer. However in May 1988 the Justice Department and 20 states filed broad anti trust suits charging Microsoft with engaging in anticompetitive conduct. The suits sought to force Microsoft to offer Windows without the Internet Explorer or to include Navigator a competing browser made by Netscape Communication Corporation. The suits also challenged some of the companies contract's and pricing strategies. In June 1998 Microsoft released Windows 98, which featured integrated Internet capabilities. in the following month Gates appointed Steve Ballamer, executive vice President of Microsoft, to become it's president and take over most of day to day business operations for he company. The federal antitrust trial against Microsoft began in October 1998. Executives from Sun, Netscape and several other computer software companies testified regarding their business deals with Microsoft. In November 1998, in the separate case brought by Sun Microsystems, a federal district court ruled against Microsoft on an injunction filed by Sun earlier that year. The injunction forced Microsoft to revise it's software to meet Sun's Java compatibility stand...
