New Microsoft Browser Raises Google’s Hackles

Steve Lohr, reporting for The New York Times:

Microsoft insists it has no intention of deploying its browser as a weapon in the search wars.

“Who, us? Abuse a monopoly in one area to ram something down our customers’ throats so as to build a new monopoly that damages our leading competitor? What would ever make you think we’d do that?”

★ Monday, 1 May 2006