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WordPerfect AntiTrust Case Can Proceed

This could get expensive for Microsoft: The US Supreme Court has rejected Microsoft's attempts to halt an antitrust lawsuit filed by Novell in 2004, in which Novell accuses Microsoft of anticompetitive practices in the office software market.

According to Novell, Microsoft withheld technical information necessary to get WordPerfect and Quattro Pro running under Windows 95 and has what it claims is an email from Bill Gates ordering important APIs to be withheld

Or maybe WordPerfect for Windows wasn’t any good.

Word for Windows 6.0 and Excel for Windows 6.0 are perfectly usable software programs. The first version of WordPerfect for Windows was a mess that was not sure if it really wanted to be a GUI program or keyboard driven using its array of hotkeys you needed to memorize.

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