●●● From Techrights

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".

Comes vs Microsoft

Petition text - overview

●● Undocumentation

Microsoft developers used undocumented APIs (Exhibit PX01614)

Microsoft developers used undocumented APIs

Microsoft "undocumentation" (Exhibit supp_rpt_andrew_schulman, Iowa)

Microsoft "undocumentation"

Undocumentated API functions found in WINDOWS.H (Exhibit PX05084)

Undocumentated API functions found in WINDOWS.H

Redacted undocumentated APIs (Exhibit PX04600)

Redacted undocumentated APIs

Keep the formats closed (Exhibit px05035)

Keep the formats closed

●● UI

Embrace our UI innovations (Exhibit px03073)

Embrace our UI innovations

Style guide biased towards Microsoft apps (Exhibit PX00956)

Style guide biased towards Microsoft apps

●● Interfaces

The dangers of open Interfaces (Exhibit PX02003)

The dangers of open Interfaces

We want OpenDOC to fail (Exhibit PX02026)

We want OpenDOC to fail

Most ugly garbage since COM/OLE (Exhibit PX02563)

Most ugly garbage since COM/OLE

Yet more undocumented API calls (Exhibit PX02667)

Yet more undocumented API calls

Winning API wars (Exhibit PX02783)

Winning API wars

●● Negligence

Microsoft 'quality control' (Exhibit PX04141)

Microsoft 'quality control'

●● Orphaned

Microsoft: developers are a one-night stand (Exhibit/transcript VolumeXXV-January52007 -- MISSING)

Microsoft: developers are a one-night stand

●● Recent Stories

How Bill Gates Denied Access to Office File Format Documentation to Stifle Competition

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/09/27/judge-finds-microsoft-undocumentation-unimpressive/

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/25/dynamic-ms-standards/

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/11/interoperability-promise-a-scam/

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/22/novell-vista-sp1-compatibility/

Microsoft on “Embrace and Extend”, the “Windows API Franchise”

Nathan Myhrvold/Bill Gates Use “Embrace and Extend” Against “Making it Easy for People to Do Competitive Operating Systems”

Comes Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Destroy Borland (Like It Did Yahoo!)

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