Moreover, Novell didn't complain to Microsoft about the lack of API support at the time, and decided to write its own customized file open dialog rather than using the common file open dialog Microsoft provided instead of APIs. But monopolists, such as Microsoft, aren't required to cooperate with competitors, Motz wrote. The ruling deconstructs Novell's claim that Microsoft's withdrawal of support for namespace extension APIs prevented WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Perfect Office from being released until May 1996 (three months after Novell sold WordPerfect to Corel). Frederick Motz in Utah granted that Microsoft motion today ( Scribd link). The Supreme Court got involved in 2008, allowing the case to proceed, but an eight-week trial ended in a hung jury in December 2011.Īfter that, Microsoft asked for a Judgment as a Matter of Law (JMOL) in an attempt to close the case. The current case was filed in 2004 after a Novell/Microsoft settlement ended all but one of the issues of contention.
Novell has been crying "antitrust" ever since.īut a ruling today brings Microsoft one big step closer to a final victory, with a judge throwing out the case with a decision that blamed Novell for the WordPerfect delays.
The delayed release of WordPerfect for the then-latest version of Windows helped Microsoft's operating system and its own Office suite win the war for market share. After all these years, Microsoft and Novell are still fighting over what went wrong for WordPerfect in the months after the release of Windows 95.
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