How Many Times Has MS Been Sued?

AngelfireUk83 · Jul 12, 2006

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32972

Here's another 1 to add to the history logs it's over a software company suing MS for use of RAM cache which helps speed up programs launching.

Can anyone else add to this list other companies or people who have sued them I know there's the WGA thing and I remember Netscape suing them.

osiris999 · Jul 12, 2006

who hasnt sued them lol

pik4chu · Jul 12, 2006

the real question is.. how many people have actually won...

Evnas · Jul 13, 2006

How to run a tech company in America: 101...

Start company, fail at company because your a lousy business person, sue successful business over a patent you didnt even know you have (or some extremely loose interperitation of a patent).

Just goes to prove what i've said for years, that the American dream is no longer starting a business and making a life your yourself...its suing the poor ******* who did and living easy

Captain Newbie · Jul 13, 2006

How many times have they been sued? Don't know, don't care, all I know is that the product is inferior from my standpoint.

synthetic_fenix · Jul 13, 2006

Lost count........... What? i only have so many fingers and toes and then i gotta goto the next person.

UnseenMenace · Jul 14, 2006

How many times has Microsoft been sued, isn't that a bit like asking how many times Windows 98 crashed, how many times someone has activacted WindowsXP or what came first the chicken or the egg

ninthebin · Jul 14, 2006

I think the EU survives on the money they steal from them alone - we europeans would all be in the third world without frivalous lawsuits against them

klingens · Jul 14, 2006

MS hasn't paid a penny yet to the EU, but one could say they stole billions over the years with their monopoly.
MS broke the law, and is refusing to pay the fines for it. Tough luck.
If you want to do business somewhere, you gotta respect the local laws, no matter what it is. MS could always say "we won't sell products in the EU anymore". There would be many many people very happy about such a statement.

PS: the EU itself has a budget of around 100 billion EUR per year. so don't say 0,3% makes or breaks the EU

openwheelracing · Jul 14, 2006

The world needs a major rival to Microsoft.

tenchi86 · Jul 14, 2006

I wonder if Microsoft will start its own law school soon just to train people to work for them. Seriously when Microsoft stops being sued I think Hell will freeze over.

pik4chu · Jul 14, 2006

klingens said:
MS hasn't paid a penny yet to the EU, but one could say they stole billions over the years with their monopoly.
MS broke the law, and is refusing to pay the fines for it. Tough luck.
If you want to do business somewhere, you gotta respect the local laws, no matter what it is. MS could always say "we won't sell products in the EU anymore". There would be many many people very happy about such a statement.

PS: the EU itself has a budget of around 100 billion EUR per year. so don't say 0,3% makes or breaks the EU

where are you getting this .3%? I didnt see any numbers mentioned here. And why are we talking about EU? the people suing are in Texas which last I checked was one of ours states...

perhaps yall are thinking of the thread I post just below this one, which is incredibly absurd (just as, if not more so than this one )

ninthebin · Jul 14, 2006

klingens said:
MS hasn't paid a penny yet to the EU, but one could say they stole billions over the years with their monopoly.
MS broke the law, and is refusing to pay the fines for it. Tough luck.
If you want to do business somewhere, you gotta respect the local laws, no matter what it is. MS could always say "we won't sell products in the EU anymore". There would be many many people very happy about such a statement.

PS: the EU itself has a budget of around 100 billion EUR per year. so don't say 0,3% makes or breaks the EU

... thanks for correcting me, and heres me thinking the EU was really funded by MS

twoeyes · Jul 14, 2006

The EU is a double edged sword, as a result of it many countries have benifited but at the cost of giving up their own econamy and independance.

z0n3 · Jul 14, 2006

There is a mathematical formula to figure out how many people will sue Microsoft each year. (Days in the year)*(Patents filed)+(The #of digits in pi).

Captain Newbie · Jul 15, 2006

ninthebin said:
I think the EU survives on the money they steal from them alone - we europeans would all be in the third world without frivalous lawsuits against them

It isn't frivolous. Anticompetitive behavior is never frivolous -- it strangles innovation.

tenchi86 · Jul 16, 2006

http://news.softpedia.com/news/EU-Fined-Microsoft-357-Million-Dollars-29496.shtml Just a little link about MS an EU. Kind of relates to the chat going on.

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