world east wealthiest men. >> it's been a bad week for microsoft and its bill gates. yesterday at the chicago debut of his much-awaited windows 98 system the program crashed. >> you'll notice that this scanner -- >> it's shaping up as one of the antitrust battles of the industry. federal and state governments today sued microsoft saying the software giant is predatory and scheming to crush all competition. >> microsoft used its monopoly power to develop a choke hold on the browser software needed to access the internet. >> i don't think bill gates recognized the seriousness of the situation. this was a case that simply wasn't going to go away. >> worst case, they will ask us to create a crippled product and that would be too bad. that would hold us back. we're quite confident that won't happen.