Today in Tech History: May 18, 2008 Video
Today in Tech History: May 18, 2008 Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Molly Wood. It's May 18, 2008, and here's what happened today in technology history. Let's start with recent technology, shall we? On this date in 1998, the US Department of Justice and 20 states filed a landmark antitrust case against Microsoft. They alleged unfair competition, especially in the browser wars due to Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, and a variety of other bad monopolistic behavior. Ten years, multiple trials, a couple of appeals, a threat to break up the company, and relatively few actual repercussions later, Microsoft is still bundling Internet Explorer with Windows and the European Union is pretty much carrying the torch on this one. It seemed so dramatic at the time. In other news on this date: speed! In 1953, Jackie Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier, and in 1958, an F-104 Starfighter set a world speed record, going 1,404.19 miles per hour. That's all we've got time for today; tune in tomorrow for more technology archaeology.
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