'Trivial' Pursuit.

This article focuses on funding of computer softwares. Microsoft Corp.'s founder Bill Gates dismissed any technology-related attraction to anyone else's software. He picked International Business Machines Corp.'s MVS for the bucks. He said that they have an installed base of 25,000 that's growing zero units a year, and they make $6 billion a year. The author's comeback was that he would have guessed he'd choose some sort of Internet-related software. controversial. If the browser was so trivial, why would Gates subsequently claim through years of antitrust litigation that it was technically too complicated to unbundle it from the operating system. Microsoft has such a chokehold with Internet explorer. Netscape found it too difficult to make its browser sufficiently compelling to prevent its marginalization to near oblivion. According to the Web monitoring outfit Net Applications, as of February Netscape held a pathetic 1.89% share of the browser market. The surge has pushed IE's share down under 90%.