Why Microsoft was sued was just the tip of the iceberg. Microsoft did a lot of anticompetitive and illegal stuff but it's very hard to prosecute. They used pre

Why Microsoft was sued was just the tip of the iceberg. Microsoft did a lot of anticompetitive and illegal stuff but it's very hard to prosecute. They used predatory and dirty tactics as much as it could. Apple is novice in comparison. VC companies had to specially prepare startups for Microsoft. If MS requested a demo, they might just watch the demo and launch their copy of software little later. They might hire top developers without requirement to work to just slow you down. They told OEM's what to do with competing software. If that didn't work they started “embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy. They destroyed DR-DOS, killed Word Perfect etc. They even attacked big boys. MS used price discrimination against IBM and blackmailed Intel to drop Native Signal Processing instruction set that threatened them. > I have decided that we should not publish these [Windows 95 user interface] extensions. We should wait until we have a way to do a high level of integration that will be harder for likes of Notes, WordPerfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real advantage.... We can't compete with Lotus and WordPerfect/Novell without this.” —Bill Gates, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/microsoft/documents/gates0902p4.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/micro...