Antitrust Misconduct Issues 3

    Another issue is the aggressive tactics Microsoft employed in threatening to remove support for competitor's products from their Windows operating system, and withholding technical information about Windows from competing developers.

    In 1995, Intel developed a technology called Native Signal Processing that could have completely changed the software industry. Microsoft responded by warning then CEO Andy Grove that it would cut support for Intel chips from Windows. Intel promptly stopped development on NSP. At one point, Microsoft threatened to cancel development of its Office line of products for use on the Macintosh operating system because Macintosh had made Netscape its default browser.

    Microsoft also withheld vital technical details that delayed Netscape's release of a new browser.

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