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LAST week鈥檚 court order to split Microsoft into two companies could
strengthen the software giant鈥檚 grasp on the Internet, says Jim Clark, the
founder of arch-rival Netscape. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson鈥檚 landmark ruling
to divide Bill Gates鈥檚 firm into separate businesses鈥攐ne for its operating
systems, the other for software applications and Web programs鈥攊s intended
to curb its monopoly. But Clark reasons that by keeping the Internet Explorer
browser under the same roof as other Web services, Microsoft could gain a
stranglehold on the Net.

Clark鈥檚 solution would be to keep IE and Windows together. 鈥淭he browser is to
Internet services what the operating system is to applications,鈥� Clark told the
computing website CNET. Clark鈥檚 view is surprising, given that Netscape was a
key player in pushing for the divorce of Windows and IE. But Clark believes that
IE, as today鈥檚 dominant browser, will become even more central to Web services
while Microsoft鈥檚 break-up is administered.

But even if Microsoft鈥檚 lawyers manage to get an appeal heard, the court will
only look at the validity of the original ruling. It will not be able to impose
new remedies such as that proposed by Clark.