Lotus Exhibits

This index deals with Comes vs Microsoft court exhibits which offer a glance at the history of Microsoft abuse. This page also contains some WordPerfect-related exhibits. For a concise summary of some of the exhibits, see "Petition text - overview".

Studying

 * Lotus Notes a major threat (Exhibit PX07445_E)
 * Understanding WordPerfect (Exhibit PX00012)
 * Competitive analysis of Lotus Notes/Domino R5 (Exhibit PX08143)
 * Enabling Exchange through detailed anaysis of Notes/Domino and DECS, IBM threat to Knowledge Workers (Exhibit px03000)

Malice

 * Lotus and WordPerfect mis-stepped on DOS (Exhibit PX07714)
 * Avoid producing lowest common denominator product (Exhibit PX00010)
 * Microsoft forgets to invite Lotus to OLE preview (Exhibit px02311)

Penalties

 * Optimize load times for Office (Exhibit PX07949)
 * No protected mode spec for Lotus (Exhibit PX00094)
 * Why Lotus was told the shell would not be OLE enabled (Exhibit PX02235)

Attacks

 * Getting Lotus to bundle to half profits (Exhibit PX00038)
 * Kill Lotus Strategy (Exhibit PX00043)
 * Bad Microsoft tag may have affected prospective business partners (Exhibit PX02267)

Posts of Interest

 * Antitrust: How Microsoft Used Kickbacks (“Referral Programs”) to Advance Its Inferior Products