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Microsoft Wins WordPerfect Antitrust Battle With Novell

Posted by Soulskill on from the raise-your-hand-if-you-even-remember-wordperfect dept.

New submitter Psychotic_Wrath writes "After a long, drawn-out legal battle and a hung jury, a federal judge has dismissed Novell's antitrust case against Microsoft. The case involved allegations from Novell that Microsoft removed code from its Windows 95 operating system which created the need for further development to WordPerfect. Novell says this delayed the release of their product, giving Microsoft Word an unfair advantage. Groklaw has a detailed write-up on the decision."

3 of 124 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Does Groklaw claim to provide balanced analysis by Eggplant62 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Groklaw's original mission was to show that SCO's case against IBM was a load of malarky from the get go, using nothing but the facts and evidence provided in the case by each side's legal briefs. I don't know if that's bias, but Groklaw and PJ have proven over and over that they seem to know both the facts and the law and get it right every single time.

  2. Re:RIGHT - Microsoft wins corrupt judge. Appeal ne by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This case is irrelevant.

    Windows 95 is history.

    No this case is relevant because WordPerfect is history.

  3. Because WP6 was so perfect, right? by Megane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can remember back in the day with other people using WP6 for Windows how they would tell it to print and it would get confused about which text to put where on the page. I'm sure that was all Microsoft's fault, right? Or how the serious users of WP for DOS would use the show codes mode all the time, which doesn't go very well with WYSIWYG editing. Some of WP6's problems were entirely WP's fault.

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