Office Suites

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

Performance/API

 * Unpublished Office '96 internal shell extensions (Exhibit PLEX0_5673)
 * Office gets a shell optimized for its use (Exhibit PX07377)
 * A unique competitive advantage by controlling API, apps and systems (Exhibit PX00952)
 * Undocumenting the shell integration API (Exhibit PX07738)
 * Making IShellBrowser internal; "intentionally break those apps" (Exhibit PX02158)
 * Optimize load times for Office (Exhibit PX07949)
 * Visio file format policy (Exhibit px03104)
 * Excel strawman redacted (Exhibit PX04449)

Attacks on Lotus

 * Microsoft and the sforzando Lotus attack plan (Exhibit PX00043)
 * Microsoft offered money to companies to destroy Lotus disks (Exhibit PX00045)

Bundling

 * Ship Excel simultaneously with Windows 3.0 (Exhibit PX00066)

Inspiration

 * WordPerfect is impressive (Exhibit PX07957)
 * Stealing all the cool features from DTP (Exhibit PX07445_C)

Others

 * Switcher tactics and WordPerfect (Exhibits PLEX0_5673 and PX02117)
 * S/MORGs (small/medium-sized orgs) and aggressive Office Flash (Exhibit PX02154)
 * They are really going after us (Exhibit PX02637)
 * Why are we giving out the Office 2000 formats (Exhibit px03078)
 * No Chinese wall at Microsoft (Exhibit PX04385)

Also see: Our Chinese wall never existed