![]() Windows was initially designed as a shell for MS-DOS, so PC users could adopt Windows and still access all of their existing software. It got a contract to produce DOS for IBM because IBM wanted Microsoft’s BASIC interpreter on the IBM PC. Microsoft has always used its existing products to leverage its new ones. We can’t compete with Lotus and WordPerfect/Novell without this.” Background We should wait until we have a way to do a high level of integration that will be harder for likes of Notes, WordPerfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real advantage. “I have decided that we should not publish these extensions. There’s one very solid piece of evidence in Novell’s favor – a 1994 email from Bill Gates that states: ![]() Microsoft claims that WordPerfect fell into disfavor because it came late to Windows Novell, which owns the WordPerfect Office technology (after selling the rest of the company to Corel), claims that Microsoft unfairly used its knowledge of Windows APIs to give itself a competitive advantage. ![]() Therein lies a tale, and every side puts its own spin on things. These are questions we’ve been asking for well over a decade, and the subject surfaced again this week after the US Supreme Court cleared the way for Novell to file an antitrust case against the Redmond behemoth over the way WordPerfect was squeezed out of the market. Is Microsoft a monopoly? Has Microsoft been guilty of monopolistic behavior?
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