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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (20201)6/24/1998 12:04:00 PM
From: Bearded One  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
One cannot run Windows 95 without DOS installed. However the links between Windows 95 and DOS are "loose" in the sense that, as Caldera recently proved, one can easily substitute another version of DOS for Microsoft's version. That is, DOS wasn't significantly altered for Windows 95 so that it couldn't run on its own.

I see how a loose integration of Windows 95 and DOS seemingly helps Microsoft in that it loosens the Appeal's court definition of integrated. However, it also seems that Caldera has presented evidence that Microsoft misstated or lied about the relationship between DOS and Windows 95 when negotiating the consent decree with the DOJ back in 1994. The ability to substitute a new DOS for the one shipped with Windows 95 is a new revelation, one that convinced judge to allow Caldera to expand their lawsuit to include Windows 95. Caldera's claim was that Windows 3.1 was simply a shell over DOS and that Microsoft's shipping of Windows 3.1 and DOS together was not integration, but rather (illegal?) tying. The court decision allowed Caldera to make the claim that Windows 95 is also simply a graphical addition to DOS. Microsoft's stance in that lawsuit seems to be, believe it or not, that Windows 95 is highly integrated with DOS. So, in my non-lawyerly opinion, Microsoft seems to have to tread a thin line about Windows 95 and DOS being well integrated in the Caldera lawsuit, but not being well integrated in the DOJ lawsuit.

Opinions? Anyone with info about Caldera? Also, what would happen to the DOJ lawsuit if Caldera shows in court that Microsoft lied to the DOJ in 1994?
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