TECHNOLOGY - March 3, 1995

Court Orders Microsoft to Stop Shipping Certain Programs: The files allegedly contain computer code plagiarized from Apple Computer Inc. The federal court order, following a lawsuit filed by Apple, prohibits Microsoft from shipping some programs in its Video for Windows developer kits, which enable programmers to write software that play video clips on personal computers. In the suit, Apple alleges that Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp. stole thousands of lines of computer programming from its QuickTime program. Carl Stork, Microsoft director of Windows hardware, said the disputed code consists of “less than one-tenth of 1%” of Video for Windows. The allegedly stolen code, called drivers, speeds performance when Video for Windows is used with graphics chips designed by S3 Corp. and Cirrus Logic. Stork said a new version of Video for Windows, with rewritten drivers, will be released in two weeks.