The specific one I remembered was Stacker, the disk compression app. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_lawsuit https://en.wikipedia.org/

The specific one I remembered was Stacker, the disk compression app. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_lawsuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_law... I remember there being others, but the only one I can find right now is related to Spyglass (which you could argue was not theft, but was instead breach of contract or deception) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc. There were other stories in the 90s, but now I can't find them (so they may have been just stories). Regardless, and considering some of the other practices of MS in the 90s and 2000s, Microsoft was a very different company from the one some of us actually like and respect now.