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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Petz who wrote (108786)	5/1/2000 3:33:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

Petz, Besides that, back in the Windows 3.1 days, M$ signed a consent decree saying that their application software group had to be insulated from their OS group, so they would not have an unfair advantage. I don't recall this. Is it possible that it was a voluntary step? I seem to remember lawsuits from outfits like Ashton Tate (DBase database) claiming that M$ used calls to undocumented Windows features in their application software. Back in the days of Ashton Tate, Microsoft did not have a database product. Microsoft Acquired Foxbase (or FoxPro) and started to work on Access only some time after Ashton Tate was absorbed by Borland. I think Ashton Tate ceased to exist long before Windows 3.1 was even released. Joe