SOFTWARE FIRM Microsoft is not out of the legal woods yet. A group of people and firms are suing the firm for violating antitrust law.
An amended petition filed on the 18th of October in the Iowa district court for Polk County is on behalf of Joe Comes, Riley Paint Inc, Skeggington's Formal Wear of Iowa, Patricia Anne Larsen and the Midwest Computer Register Corporation.
A 94 page document details ways in which it's alleged Microsoft squeezed IBM, Digital Research Be and other application and product manufacturers such as Micrografx and Go out of the market.
The Go example is interesting because the filing claims what Microsoft CEO Bill Gates personally approached Intel and demanded it withdraw its support of the pen coming tech.
Microsoft also, it's claimed "quashed" Intel's native signal processing technology, which promised to give CPUs video and graphics capabilities. Then there's BeOS - which the filing claims was licensed by Hitachi and which caused Microsoft to threaten to raise the price of Windows.
Then there's Linux and LindowsOS, which the filing claimed got the Microsoft treatment too.
It claims that Bill Gates described the consent decree in 1995 that restrictions on the per processor licences wasn't important. And there's Netscape Navigator of course. The plaintiffs want damages and a jury trial.
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