Novell's $1 billion anti-trust suit against Microsoft hears closing arguments

The case is now in the hands of the presiding judge and jury. In 2004, the global enterprise software provider sued Microsoft, claiming the company violated anti-trust laws in 1994 by using its monopoly on personal computer operating systems to suppress WordPerfect, at the time the world's most popular word-processing program. Eventually, WordPerfect's value cratered from $1.2 billion ... [ read the full article ]