At the turn of the Millennium, Bill Gates went head to head with the United States Department of Justice over Microsoft's allegedly monopolistic business practices, including the company's bundling of software applications with its operating system software.
During the ensuing trial, Gates claimed that, for technical reasons, the firm's browser, Internet Explorer, could not be unbundled from the rest of Windows -- whereupon an expert witness for the prosecution went to work in the courtroom and unbundled Explorer in about ten minutes.
["Fortune picked Henry Ford as 'Businessman of the Century,'" Jon Stewart reported in November 1999, "beating out IBM's Thomas Watson -- and Satan's Bill Gates."]
