Microsoft Litigation
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[ EU Commission Antitrust ]
[ US v. Microsoft (Antitrust) ]
[ Caldera v. Microsoft ]
[ Comes v. Microsoft ]
[ Gordon v. Microsoft ]
[ Novell v. Microsoft ]
[ Alphabetical List ]
[ Legal Research ]
[ Miscellaneous ]
[ Topics ]
EU Commission Antitrust
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- Form for the public to report violations (literally "Information on Competition Problems affecting Consumers" which goes to the
Consumer Liaison Office
- Opera's Complaint (& OOXML Interoperability)
- 2009 browser tying case - Jan. 17, 2009, press release "Commission confirms sending a Statement of Objections to Microsoft on the tying of Internet Explorer to Windows"
- Press Release announcing 2 new investigations, Jan. 14, 2008, one on browser tying, brought initially by Opera, and the second, brought by ECIS, on Office interoperability: "In the complaint by ECIS, Microsoft is alleged to have illegally refused to disclose interoperability information across a broad range of products, including information related to its Office suite, a number of its server products, and also in relation to the so called .NET Framework. The Commission's examination will therefore focus on all these areas, including the question whether Microsoft's new file format Office Open XML, as implemented in Office, is sufficiently interoperable with competitors' products."
- EU Commission initiates investigation on tying, December 2007
- Microsoft v. Commission of the European Communities ("Microsoft v. Commission"), Case T-201/04
Caldera v. Microsoft (antitrust)
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Groklaw's docket of all documents still available
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Caldera v.Microsoft documents shredded by court order
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Caldera Antitrust Lawsuit Index, timeline Annotated timeline of Caldera case. Most links are to Caldera web site, now invalid.
- Document: First Amended
Complaint and Jury Demand, in Caldera v. Microsoft, Case No. 2:96 CV 645B.
- Groklaw - Canopy, Novell,
Sun, Caldera, IBM and Microsoft -- The DR-DOS Gang's All Here
- More DR DOS Documents Found - link to MaxFrame site, click on Digital Research, for documents and press releases
- The MaxFrame Index
- O'Reilly Network:
The Caldera v. Microsoft Dossier Andrew Shulman's summary of the DR-DOS anti-trust case. Note his
mention of the secrecy requirements on the settlement agreement and the
numerous dead links to court documents formerly available on the
Caldera DR-DOS and Microsoft web sites.
- Examining the Windows
AARD Detection Code. Andrew Shulman analyzes the code at issue, in the
September 1993 issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal. "The first step in discovering why the error message appeared
under DR DOS but not MS-DOS was to examine the relevant WIN.COM code. However, the WIN.COM code that
produced this message turned out to be XOR encrypted, self-modifying, and deliberately obfuscated -- all
in an apparent attempt to thwart disassembly."
- Andrew Orloski on deliberate warning message
- 2000 Caldera-Microsoft Settlement Surfaces in Novell v. Microsoft Antitrust Lawsuit, Groklaw
Comes v. Microsoft (Iowa antitrust class action)
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- Transcripts from the trial
- Exhibits (not yet completed)
- Bill Gates video - deposition from the US antitrust litigation, presented to the jury in Comes v. Microsoft. Also available as audio. Also transcripts. (All Comes materials were downloaded from
www.iowaconsumercase.org, before the site was removed when the settlement was reached.)
Gordon v. Microsoft (Minnesota antitrust)
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Novell v. Microsoft (antitrust)
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Alphabetical List
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Legal research
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Governments and Treaty Organizations
- U.S.A.
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World Trade Organization
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Miscellaneous Resources
Miscellaneous
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Topics
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BeOS
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BSA
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Business Practices
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China
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F/OSS
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F/OSS Licensing
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Gnu/Linux
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FoxPro
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Licensing
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Patents
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Piracy
- Gates, Buffett a bit bearish | CNET News.com Bill Gates: "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
- Gotcha: Did Microsoft use Warez for Windows XP? Nine sound files installed with XP appear to have been generated using a cracked version of Sound Forge.
- Microsoft New Zealand Investigating 254 Software Piracy Leads "Microsoft is investigating more than 250 piracy leads as a result of its 'Five Plus Five' program. The program offers a $5,000 reward for information that leads to a successful legal action against businesses running unlicensedMicrosoft software, as well as $5,000 in cash to a designated New Zealand charity."
- Microsoft Files Eight Lawsuits Alleging Distribution of Counterfeit COA Labels And Infringing Software in California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington.
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Standards
- Microsoft tool kits mess up development of TCP/IP apps April 1, 1996: "Microsoft Corp., perhaps unwittingly, has been shipping [Windows 95] developer tool kits that build applications that break when they run with non-Microsoft TCP/IP stacks, the company admitted last week. [...] Microsoft's competitors inthe TCP/IP space, meanwhile, are livid. 'Microsoft has taken an open standard and turned it into a proprietary Microsoft implementation; that's a major concern'."
- Competition in the Network Market: The Microsoft Challenge Whitepaper issued by the Software Publishers Association in June, 1998, addressing alleged anti-competitive practices.
- SPA says Microsoft server strategy is anticompetitive June 22, 1998: From the whitepaper "The time to prevent anticompetitive distortion in the enterprise software market is now, not after Microsoft's merger of the desktop and enterprise operating systems gives it a stranglehold on both markets."
- Microsoft and standards: The rules have changed October 5, 1998: With the rise of the internet, Microsoft has been less successful in dictating non-standard standards.
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