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Collection of documents related to the Antitrust case

This is an interesting collection of documents from the Antitrust case against Microsoft:

• Bill Gates stating how MS Office should depend on proprietary Internet Explorer features
• Bill Gates: «Why would the Office group be giving out the Office 2000 formats to competitors? To me this seems crazy.»
• Office 97 includes an unique user identifier, patch provided for customers asking for it explicitly
• Evangelism as a war plan
• Apple took the WinFS promises and made them real before we did
• Outlook for 2005
• Allchin: I would buy a Mac today
• Linux 2003 Heat Map
• Linux OEM Threat Sensor 2002, also assessing StarOffice
• Attempt to unite with Intel against IBM + Linux
• Getting cheap Microsoft products out to Malaysia in order to prevent them from switching to Linux
• Why Microsoft Apples are better than Linux Oranges
• WalMart Lindows eradication taskforce
• IDC white paper sponsored by Microsoft: Windows 2000 vs. Linux
• Strategy presentation for 2001
• Internal Office rant following RedHerring article: Is Microsoft losing its grip?
• Comparison between Office XP and StarOffice 5.2
• Comparison between Office 2000 and StarOffice 5.2 – StarOffice as OEM product must be prevented
• New policy regarding Office 2000 file formats forbids to build converters, develop competitive products, etc.
• Prediction of StarOffice 5.2 spread
• Not building Word 11: the feature war is over
• Bill Gates: ACPI should be a Windows specific standard
• Making fun of German customers: Corel sells as much as home productivity
• Anti-Java strategy 1995
• Stevenson: Why we must not support Java
• Office 95 channel push called «Operation Napalm»
• Plamodon: ISVs are pawns in the struggle between platform vendors
• Making Windows 3.x incompatible with DR-DOS
• Source code to the «Alien DOS warning message»
• Spreading FUD about DR-DOS incompatibilities

Please note that all of these are Microsoft internal documents and not an invention of some conspiracy theorist.