Examples of Microsoft Platform Software in a sentence
The proposed final judgment defines Microsoft Platform Software as the combination or alternative of two other defined terms.
As part of this disclosure, Microsoft shall identify, provide reasonable explanation of, and disseminate publicly a complete specification of all APIs, Communications Interfaces and Technical Information relating to the Interoperation of such Browser product(s) and/or functionality and each Microsoft Platform Software product.
Section III.F.228 is aimed directly at Microsoft’s dealings with ISVs. Pursuant to § III.F.2 Microsoft may not condition any benefit or “grant of Consideration” on an ISV’s “refraining from developing, using, distributing, or promoting” software that competes with Microsoft Platform Software.
Section III.G of the SRPFJ governs Microsoft’s ability to enter into agreements with IAPs, ICPs, ISVs, IHVs,24 and OEMs which require any such entity to distribute, promote, use or support, “exclusively or in a fixed percentage,” any Microsoft Platform Software.
Discounts provided to OEMs in order to increase the consumer appeal of new personal computers running Windows are made available on a uniform basis based on objectively verifiable criteria.Section III.A. prohibits Microsoft from retaliating or threatening to retaliate against an OEM because of an OEM’s decision to distribute or otherwise to promote any software that competes with Microsoft Platform Software.
This definition is used in Sections III.C and III.H, as well as indirectly, via the Microsoft Platform Software definition, in Sections III.A, III.F and III.G.76.
Microsoft shall not take any action that it knows, or reasonably should know, will directly or indirectly, interfere with or degrade the performance or compatibility of any non-Microsoft Middleware when Interoperating with any Microsoft Platform Software other than for good cause.
Among other things, these provisions ban retaliation against third parties who compete with Microsoft Platform Software and ban any agreements by which a third party would be committed to distribute or otherwise to promote Microsoft Platform Software exclusively or in any fixed percentage.
The “technical information” definition encompassed the following items:all information regarding the identification and means of using APIs and Communications Interfaces that competent software developers require to make their products running on any computer interoperate effectively with Microsoft Platform Software running on a Personal Computer.
The OEM or Third-Party Licensee shall be free to market Personal Computers in which it preinstalls such immediately previous Windows Operating System Product or Windows 98 SE in the same manner in which it markets Personal Computers preinstalled with other Microsoft Platform Software.