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NEW YORK Gateway Inc. plans to let customers choose which Internet browser they use in its new home computers after winning permission from embattled Microsoft Corp.
The browser choice comes after government lawyers sued Microsoft over allegedly restrictive contracts that force PC companies such as Gateway to install Microsoft's software for viewing and retrieving Internet information.
Netscape Communications Corp., which pioneered the market for Internet browsers, has seen its share dramatically slide because of Microsoft's aggressive marketing practices.
"We have gained some flexibility in our negotiations with Microsoft," Gateway chief executive Ted Waitt said in a telephone interview this morning.
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