MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The barons of the software industry gathered on Capitol Hill today testifying before a very concerned Senate committee, and while billionaire Bill Gates wasn't the only high-tech executive on the front line, he and his Microsoft empire certainly were under heavy fire.</s>SCOTT MCNEALY, PRES. & CEO, SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC.: The only thing I'd rather own other than Windows is English or Chinese or Spanish, because then I could charge you a 249-dollar right to speak English, and I can charge you an upgrade fee when I add new letters like N and</s>T. SEN. HERBERT KOHL (D), WISCONSIN: If your industry were much more competitive, your prices would be a lot lower.</s>BILL GATES, CHMN. & CEO, MICROSOFT CORP.: When I decided to create Microsoft, I did not call up IBM and say, IBM, do you think there's any chance for me to create an operating system that sells hundreds of millions of copies?</s>BILL HEMMER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's called the browser war. Nearly all consumers use Microsoft software to run their computers. So, rivals in the browser business, like Netscape, say Microsoft is cutting them out.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Of that group who use PCs, how many of you use a PC without Microsoft's operating system? Gentlemen, that's a monopoly.</s>GATES: Any company can produce the entire demand for the world's operating systems in the course of a day. These operating systems are based on ideas, and no company owns the factory for ideas.
CNN 20: Bill Gates Testifies, March 3, 1998