1.   A federal appeals court refused Thursday to reconsider its ruling that Microsoft illegally combined Internet browsing software with the Windows operating system.

2.   Consumers, Microsoft said, benefited from its decision to fold Internet browsing software into its industry-standard Windows operating system.

3.   He found that the computer operating system and Internet browsing software are separate products.

4.   Microsoft, the government charges, is using its near-monopoly on computer operating systems to try to unfairly gain control over the market for Internet browsing software.

5.   Microsoft started with the PC operating system, then added software development tools, then software applications like word processing and spreadsheets, then Internet browsing software.

6.   Netscape was the commercial pioneer in Web browsing software.

7.   Philips Electronics began selling in Europe last year a modem and Internet browsing software that attaches to its CD-i interactive compact disc player for the TV.

8.   The flamboyant executive was quoted as suggesting that Netscape, a leader in Internet browsing software, would not be in business for long.

9.   The old contracts banned the providers from offering customers browsing software not made by Microsoft.

10.   There was no great customer demand, for example, for Internet browsing software.