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Article: MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF SQUEEZE ON APPLE EXECUTIVE REPORTS THREATS TO MAC SOFTWARE.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 31, 1998
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An Apple Computer executive, in testimony released yesterday, accused Microsoft Corp. of trying to force Apple out of the market for multimedia playback software, pressuring customers and developers not to support Apple's technology and adding code to its Windows software to undermine Apple.
Microsoft even threatened to stop producing its Office software for Apple's Macintosh operating system, an application that Avadis Tevanian, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, called critical to the survival of the Macintosh.
Tevanian is scheduled to take the witness stand Monday in the government's antitrust suit against Microsoft, which accuses ...