SEATTLE (Reuters) - No. 1 software maker Microsoft Corp. on Thursday said it would pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner Inc. to settle a 16-month-long antitrust dispute as the rivals agreed to work together on Internet-based media and technology.

The wide-ranging deal marked the end of one of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft's most contentious legal disputes following last November's federal antitrust settlement.

New York-based AOL Time Warner said it would use the settlement money to pay down part of its $26 billion in debt.

"The agreement we've reached marks a new phase of relations between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in telephone news conference.

"It puts any past issues behind us," Gates said.

As part of the deal, AOL won a royalty-free license to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser technology for seven years. Microsoft will also distribute AOL's online service software discs with Windows that are shipped to the "white-box" personal computer manufacturers that make customized PCs from off-the-shelf components.

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2848962

Although this hurts netscape, it wont hurt mozilla, due to he fact that most of its user base is probably linux.

who f***in cares

pococurante!!!!!

Microsoft will also distribute AOL's online service software discs with Windows

oh great more useless cd's to snap.

No! The glass is half FULL!

Think of it as:

More exciting frizbees!

the glass is both half full and half empty... which you use is determined by the previous events that have taken place... if the glass has just been filled half way, then it is half full. however, if the glass has been emptied down to half way, then the glass is half empty.

Think of it as:

More exciting frizbees!

rofl.

yay #300 post

only if you buy s*** PC's like compqrap or aptiva or packard smell. I took it to mean it only comes with those types of PC's not with box versions of windows.

(as if any of you tools bought windows anyway except maybe trog I think he did)

the glass is both half full and half empty... which you use is determined by the previous events that have taken place... if the glass has just been filled half way, then it is half full. however, if the glass has been emptied down to half way, then the glass is half empty.

That's all fine and good, but what if you don't know of how the glass got to it's current state?

damn you hashy!@#%&^%@!^@#%@!!!!!

in that case, the glass is approximately two times the size it needs to be ^^;;

Or is it top half empty, or bottom half empty?

Drink it normally, its top half empty

Drink through a straw an its bottom half empty

there is no glass

Think of it as:

More exciting frizbees!

Splat....remember that!?! we threw one at school and it went AAAGGESSSS then sharply ran into the ground, and SHATTERED into a million peices.

yay #300 post

That's so supergay!

Death to Nutscrape btw...

eww nutscrape :(

why does everyone seem to hate mozilla? Its a better browser than Internet Exploiter.

Faster, actually supports internet standards rather than making up its own, and even has a built in pop up stopper.

why does everyone seem to hate mozilla? Its a better browser than Internet Exploiter

Yeah I know, I made the move quite awhile ago and it's fantasic.

i like ie
i like microsoft

you like cock

im fond of my own, but not others

So you suck your own cock?

not suck, just fondle a lot

You must have pretty small hands.

some of the larger variety actually

I cant think of anything else..

You suck ;P

hahahah
how did we get here?

you said you liked IE and Microsoft, that means instant flamage =D