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Microsoft did end up paying $500M to Novell over anti-competitive behaviour in the 1990's

https://www.geek.com/law/microsoft-settles-novell-case-for-u...

My memory, and it's been a while, was that at least partially related to some interop tricks that MS played to make Netware's software work less well in the Windows world. , although I'm sure part of it was also down to Novell finding it challenging to adapt.

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I thought that was about WordPerfect etc rather than NetWare.

Totally agree that Microsoft did some bad stuff, I just don’t remember there being any malign attempts to disrupt NetWare integration.

NetWare was the main player in PC networking at the time, so arguably it would not have been a good strategy.

It’s absolutely true that the NDS integration was an issue, but my memory is that this was a quality/competency issue on both sides, and not due to a lack of cooperation.

I think wordperfect was a diffrent settlement at least according to https://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/08/microsoft_novell_ne...

From that the settlement was around NDS for NT

Thanks for digging that out, I stand corrected.

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