81 Stuart J. Johnston, Microsoft Settles for Bit of Stac, Computerworld, June 27, 1994, at 30 (Microsoft paid $39.9 million for 155’o of Stac, and an additional $43 million over 43 months for a license to Stac’s data compression technology); Doug Barney, Microsoft, Stac Eliminate Conflict; Microsoft Finally Will pay Up, InfoWorld, June 27, 1994, at 14.

83 As explained in Section V.C., infra, the superficially irrational behavior of undermining the application vendors that produce programs that run on Microsoft’s operating system is logical specifically since the Microsoft has an independent economic incentive to monopolize the s.

85 Amy Cortese, Business Week, Dec. 19, 1994, supra, at 35 (HP, Compaq and other big U.S. PC makers plan to bundle Windows 95 into their machines).

86 Discover Lawrence J. Microsoft: Not so Glorious, Bay Area Computer Currents, Dec. 1, 1994, at 98, 101 (Ex. 1); Carole Patton, Computerworld, Nov. 14, 1994, supra, at 57 (Ex. 8).

88 Don Clark, Microsoft to get Intuit In Stock Pact, Wall St. J., Oct. 14, 1994, at A3 (86% of retail store sales); Karen Epper, Application Price Shakes Upwards Home Financial, Amer. Banker, Oct. 17, 1994, at 1, 25 (80-85%).

89 Michelle Flores, Wants Additional info, Seattle Times, Nov. 22, 1994, at B11; Michael Schrage, Microsoft Makes Thousands; Can it Figure the treatment of They?, Washington Post, Oct. 21, 1994, at B3; Brent Schlender, Fortune, Jan. 16, 1995, supra, at 36.

91 Brent Schendler, Fortune, Jan. 16, 1995, supra, at 4748; pick along with, Michael I. Miller, PC Magazine, Jan. 24, 1995, supra, at 80 (Ex. 25) (“Microsoft could require just a small service charge on each transaction. Or it could make money on the float — the interest in the few seconds it takes to move money from one place to another. Or both.”).

92 For example, leading industry analyst Rick Sherlund of Goldman Sachs predicted that with the settlement, Microsoft “should dominate the market for desktop software for the next 10 years.” And another leading analyst, Richard Shaffer concluded that “It]he operating system wars are over — Microsoft is the winner . Microsoft is the Standard Oil of its day planetromeo profiles.” Andrew Schulman, Microsoft’s Traction On the Application Fasten Of the Antitrust Contract, Dr. Dobb’s Journal of Software Tools, Oct. 1994, at 143 (Ex. 13).

93 See John M. Goodman, The latest 2 Heavyweights Go Some other Round, InfoWorld, Aug. 29, 1994, at 87 (rating PC-DOS version 6.3 above MS-DOS version 6.22) and Earle Robinson, DOS-adaptation Insanity? Integration Living with 2, Windows Sources, Oct. 1994, at 163 (“my choice would be the IBM . . . it’s cheaper”) and Yael Li-Ron, Desktop Dos 6.3: 2 and you will 2: Separated In the Beginning, PC-Computing, bra computers ship with MS-DOS).

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94 Don Clark Laurie Hays, Microsoft’s The latest Business Systems Draw Issues, Wall St. J., Dec. 12, 1994, at B6 (Ex. 41).

96 All of these problems are discussed in Rory O’Connor, San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 13, 1994, supra, at 1A, 28A (Ex. 34).

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99 Indeed, Microsoft’s operating system “lock-in” has permitted it to bring demonstrably inferior products to market (products that did not enjoy any appreciable consumer acceptance) without negative consequences to the company. See Michael Morris, Microsoft Price: A lack of, Too late, S.F. Examiner, July 24, 1994, at C-5. (Ex. 33)

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101 Select, age.g., supra, note 32. (Microsoft presently holds greater than 90% of the X86 operating system market share); Christopher O’Malley, Personal Computing, October 1986, supra, at 181, 183 (“Microsoft’s operating system” has “better than 95 percent” share of the X86 systems.)