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Article: NETSCAPE PUSHES FOR MICROSOFT PROBE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- August 21, 1996
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Netscape Communications Corp. is calling for a renewed antitrust investigation of Microsoft Corp.'s business practices, alleging the Redmond software giant has ``resorted to a wide variety of predatory pricing and bundling behavior that violates antitrust laws'' to suppress competing Internet software vendors.
In an Aug. 12 letter to the U.S. Justice Department, Netscape attorney Gary Reback said Microsoft is violating a 1994 consent decree with the government in which Microsoft promised not to tie sales of its market-leading Windows 95 personal computer operating system to other Microsoft products, or to use Windows 95 licensing contracts to discourage the sale ...