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History of Microsoft Windows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | It included new hardware drivers and the FAT32 file system to support disk partitions larger than the 2 GB allowed by Windows 95. |
 | | It also controversially integrated the Internet Explorer into the Windows GUI, prompting the opening of the Microsoft antitrust case, dealing with the question whether Microsoft was abusing its hold on the IBM_PC operating system market to push its products in other areas. |
 | | In 1999, Microsoft released Windows 98 Second Edition, whose most notable feature was the addition of Internet Connection Sharing (a brand name for a form of Network Address Translation), which allowed several machines on a LAN to share an internet connection. |
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