Microsoft also said it is discontinuing the controversial " channel bar, " a feature that allowed consumers to move easily to World Wide Web sites of Microsoft's paying partners, such as Disney.
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A good part of Harris'testimony dealt with the exclusionary contract Microsoft forced Intuit to sign so that Microsoft would include a link to Quicken's Web site on the " channel bar ."
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"The real issue is whether Microsoft will allow the PC makers to populate the channel bar with their own selections, " said Ken Wasch, president of the Software Publishers Association, a trade group.
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He also showed how it was possible for computer owners to remove both the icon for Microsoft's browser and the Web browser " channel bar " feature, which Microsoft has hailed as an innovation.
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The channel bar, which has been part of the most recent version of the Internet Explorer browser, allows the user to put together a selection of Internet Web sites, much like channels on a television.
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Sources said the government did not want the initial screen to include the channel bar or an icon for Internet Explorer, which would allow users to activate the Internet-browsing software with a click of the mouse.
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The government said Microsoft also illegally forced computer makers to set up computers so that users saw the Windows logo when they turned on the machine, as well as a feature called a " channel bar ."
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Another part of the government's antitrust suit charges Microsoft with forcing Internet service companies to support Internet Explorer, not Netscape, in exchange for receiving promotional space on a part of the main Windows screen known as the Channel Bar.
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On new machines, the computer maker decides whether you see the channel bar with Mickey Mouse and the Tasmanian Devil and whether you start browsing files and folders the classic double-click way or use the single-clicking made popular by the Web.
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They also want Microsoft to allow PC makers to choose what appears on the Windows main screen, or desktop, where the company now promotes its Internet commerce services and those of companies that pay for a position on the Windows " channel bar ."
