Just days after Microsoft settled outstanding claims regarding Novell Netware with a $536 million cash payout, Novell has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Utah seeking unspecified damages for what it says is unfair competition in the productivity applications market. The suit alleges that Microsoft withheld critical technical information from Novell when the company owned the WordPerfect word processing application immediately following a 1994 merger with WordPerfect Corporation. Furthermore, Novell's complaint makes the accusation that Microsoft strong-armed partner OEMs into not carrying the software.

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