Questions to discuss for the news article one

Questions:

1.Which software products will be challenged by Google’s free web browser that has just been released, called Chrome?

2.What are the Google’s typical web-based software that are free alternative to Microsoft’s lucrative desktop software?

3.Why does Google not have to win the browser war with Microsoft, strategically speaking?

4.What was the historic event happened on May 18, 1998 between Microsoft and the United States Department of Justice? And how was it eventually settled?