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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!)

=> Techrights

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