Article: GATES: PLOTTER, OR PROPHET? MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF SEEKING CHOKE HOLD ON BROWSER MARKET.(Business)

Byline: Ted Bridis Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- STOCK WATCH

Microsoft Corp.,

(MSFT: Nasdaq) $86.50, up 44 cents.

The antitrust case against Microsoft describes the company as waging a take-no-prisoners fight to dominate the worldwide market for browsers, the software that people use to view information on the Internet.

Within the sweeping federal lawsuits filed Monday, the company's own executives are seen as struggling to wrestle a stranglehold onto their biggest rival to win this ``browser war.''

The browser is clearly more important to Microsoft than word processors, games or business programs. But what is it ...

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