国内大事记回目录
国外大事记回目录
1994 《华盛顿邮报》购并CD-ROM出版公司Mammoth
1998 AT&T与Yahoo!继续合作协议，共同进行市场推广
1998年5月18日，美国司法部和美国20个州首席检察官认为，微软在Windows操作系统中捆绑IE浏览器，此举违反了相应和解协议，并因此对微软提出联合起诉。1998年11月9日，微软联合创始人比尔·盖茨（Bill Gates）在一段出庭作证录像中表示，自己从未有意将竞争对手挤出软件市场。
司法部与20州起诉微软但正是美国司法部的这次调查，为微软引来了100多起其他法律诉讼。继美国之后，欧盟也于2004年表示，鉴于微软已滥用其市场优势地位，故对其开出巨额罚单。不仅如此，美国司法部于2007年11月表示，将把监督微软执行2002年反垄断和解协议的期限向后延长两年。经过这一番“折腾”，微软已经“元气大伤”。
1999
Version 4.6 of Netscape Communicator is released. Visit the official Netscape website.
2000
Boo.com, a high-profile online designer clothing retailer based in the U.K., is placed in receivership and its assets are liquidated less than a year after its launch. What makes the failure so notable amidst the many other failures following the dot-com bubble is that many analysts will attribute the company’s poor sales to its poor website’s poor design. The site ignored nearly all usability conventions. Its homepage alone was a major obstacle, forcing dial-up users to wait for several minutes to load its Flash and Javascript pseudo-3D interface. To their enduring infamy, it took the company’s two Swedish co-founders just six months to burn through US$188 million of venture capital.
2004
Version 2 of the Fedora Core operating system is released. Fedora is an RPM-basedLinux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Code-name: Tettnang Visit the official Fedora Project website.
2009
Wolfram Research officially launches theWolfram Alpha answer engine. Wolfram Alpha is an online service that provides answers to queries through computation, rather than by indexing data the way a search engine does. Visit the official Wolfram Alpha website.
