![]() “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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