The Seattle Times: Microsoft: Antitrust suit filed against Microsoft: "Go was acquired by AT&T in 1994 and shut down that same year, the complaint says. Kaplan's lawsuit says Microsoft's plan to drive Go out of business was revealed last year in documents that were part of a separate antitrust case against Microsoft in Minnesota.
'These claims date back nearly 20 years. They were baseless then and they are baseless now,' said Stacy Drake, a Microsoft spokeswoman. 'Handwriting recognition had severe limitations in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and no company that attempted pen computers was successful.'"
IMHO, the lawsuit has little chance of succeeding, but at least we all got a good book out of it. I guess the (or at least a) moral of the story is that you can have the right idea, but at the wrong time!
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