Digital officials say Microsoft pressured company - NYT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five current and former executives of
Digital
Equipment Corp. said their company was forced to drop a planned
Internet
product last year under threats from Microsoft Corp. Chairman
Bill Gates,
The New York Times reported. This offers new evidence
supporting the
government's allegations that Microsoft routinely suppresses
competition in
any new market that might threaten its monopoly in personal
computer
operating systems, the report said. The Digital executives said
their company
disbanded a product development group after Gates told then
Digital CEO
Robert Palmer that a product the group was developing with
Oracle Corp.
would threaten an earlier deal for Microsoft to develop a
version of its
Windows NT operating system for Digital's new processor. A
Microsoft
spokesman Wednesday said his company placed no improper
pressure on
Digital. ###
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