From The Register: “One of the exhibits in the previous stages of the Microsoft antitrust trial included an email from one Chris Jones, recommending to Bill Gates that the binding of IE into Windows should be such that users would find running rival browsers ‘a jolting experience.’ At the time many people, not least of them the Department of Justice, seemed to think that this and other associated exhibits were all about the anticompetitive tying of IE into Windows in order to destroy Netscape. But apparently not — MS Windows exec Chris, taking the stand yesterday, put forward an explanation of almost patentable novelty.
What he meant, he said, was that the experience would be jolting for good reasons if it occurred because of the ‘great innovations’ that integration of IE brought to Windows.”
