61.   The company also received nine additional orders for its browser software.

62.   The company is releasing the latest version of its MSN Explorer browser software.

63.   The government also abandoned a central claim of the lawsuit that Microsoft had violated federal antitrust law by integrating its Internet Explorer browser software into its Windows operating system.

64.   The government contends Microsoft executives proposed that the two companies divide the market for browser software.

65.   The government contends that Microsoft illegally used its market power to persuade these companies to enter exclusionary deals to curb competition in the market for Web browser software.

66.   The latest version of Internet Explorer comes only weeks after Netscape released the latest version of the Mac version of its Communicator suite of browser software.

67.   The National Center for Supercomputer Applications in the U.S. developed Mosaic, the first generation of browser software.

68.   The suit accuses Microsoft of using its Windows monopoly to promote its Web browser software.

69.   The significance of the rivalry extends beyond the browser software, however.

70.   The two companies are involved in a bare-knuckle brawl over dominance in the market for browser software, which lets people create and view pages on the Internet.