browser world. >> microsoft says internet explorer just makes it easier to get around the web. but when you hit a button to access services for travel, entertainment, news, and life, you find sites owned by microsoft. >> and that's what the government is worried about. over the next few years, americans may be buying billions of dollars in goods and services through the internet. and that's a market too important, the government says, for one company to act as gatekeeper. >> the u.s. justice department asked a federal court today to find microsoft corporation a record $1 million a day. >> the complaint against the soft came from executives at netscape, a fast-growing software company that struck gold with its web browser, but microsoft began giving away its own browser and required computer manufacturers to offer it with windows. >> what they are able to do is they are able to illegally, we believe, use that monopoly power to block petition.