“The Supreme Court on Monday handed Microsoft Corp. a defeat by refusing to rule on the software giant’s request to halt an antitrust suit against it,” Christopher S. Rugaber reports for The Associated Press.
“The suit was brought in 2004 by Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc., which said in court papers that Microsoft “deliberately targeted and destroyed” its WordPerfect and QuattroPro programs in order to protect its Windows operating system monopoly,” Rugaber reports.
“Novell alleged that Microsoft targeted the programs because they could run on alternative operating systems and therefore could enable alternatives to Windows to gain market share,” Rugaber reports.
“Microsoft argued in court filings that Novell did not compete in the operating systems market, and therefore cannot claim to have been harmed by alleged anticompetitive conduct by Microsoft in that market,” Rugaber reports. “A federal district court and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, Va., sided with Novell and allowed the suit to proceed.”
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Gee, that’s too bad, huh? 
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Don’t spoil it
It’s odd that Novell would be focusing on WordPerfect in this lawsuit. They only bought out WordPerfect Corp. because is included the code that eventually became GroupWise (which still is far superior to Outlook in many ways, though the Mac client isn’t great). They wanted to beef up the offerings for their NetWare server (which is still far superior to Windows Server in many ways, though Mac support is sometimes spotty). They didn’t do a thing with WordPerfect. It only came into its own after Novell sold it to Corel in the early 90s. When Corel took over WordPerfect (which is still far superior to Word in many ways, though the Mac version wasn’t great) it was probably already too late. And yes, Microsoft did their darndest to ensure its demise. Frankly, Corel has more of a case than Novell.