1.   At Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., gaining share in the browser market has been a corporate imperative for two years.

2.   Before Microsoft bundled its browsing software into Windows, the browser pioneer, Netscape Communications Corp., had a sizable business in the browser market.

3.   Bernoff pointed out that Netscape, which controls the Internet browser market, has so far refused to commit to developing a browser for the NC.

4.   Allen Weiner, a research analyst with Dataquest in San Jose, thinks Inbox Direct should help Netscape maintain its dominant position in the browser market.

5.   Both companies are battling for a dominant share of the Internet browser market and for partnerships with content providers.

6.   But Beilinson insisted that Microsoft has made dramatic inroads in the browser market.

7.   But Gray said the government has probably not made its case, because it has not shown that Microsoft has anything approaching control of the browser market.

8.   But he did not find Microsoft guilty of seeking to monopolize the Internet browser market at the expense of Navigator, the rival product of Netscape Communications Corp.

9.   But he said again that this referred to underlying Internet software and did not imply trying to push Netscape out of parts of the browser market.

10.   But it does not mention an invitation to divide the browser market.