The software and computer industries are vastly different today than they were back in the late 1990′s, when the federal government launched the first salvos of its decade-long antitrust battle with Microsoft. Nowadays Microsoft is the one casting itself as the victim of what it calls today’s tech monopolist, Google Inc.
And until this week, it looked as if Microsoft had succeeded in putting the 200 or so private antitrust suits that followed the government’s action safely behind it. Not anymore: On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit revived a six-year-old antitrust suit against Microsoft brought by Novell Inc., the maker of WordPerfect. A three-judge panel ruled 2-1 in favor of reinstating Novell’s suit, concluding that a lower court erred in determining that the company had signed away its rights to bring the suit years ago.
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