Microsoft Wins Antitrust Case as Top Court Rejects Novell

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The U.S. Supreme Court ended a lawsuit that accused Microsoft Corp. of illegally protecting its Windows computer operating system from competition 20 years ago by undercutting a rival word-processing program.

Declining to take up a lingering antitrust case stemming from Microsoft’s software dominance in the 1990s, the justices today rejected without comment an appeal by Novell Inc., which once made the WordPerfect application.