"It would HELP ME IMMENSELY to have a survey showing that 90 per cent of developers believe that putting the browser in the OS makes sense." - Bill Gates in a memo to a number of company officials on February 14th 1998. The US government last week used it to attack the credibility of research data presented by a Microsoft expert witness in the company's antitrust trial which showed application developers were in favour of including Web-browsing software in the Windows operating system.