"The message in RealNetworks' antitrust case against Microsoft is clear: 'Predatory conduct' by Microsoft is responsible for lost business that could exceed $1 billion in damages to the digital-media company," reports CNet.
"Regardless of the lawsuit's merits, however, Microsoft's opposition is only one of a remarkable string of hardships faced by RealNetworks. The Seattle-based Internet pioneer has endured years of internal and external challenges, including new technologies, strategic mistakes and old-fashioned bad luck, that weren't caused by its crosstown rival."
Comment: The US lawsuit is based on the same arguments as the EU one. What's amusing is the reminder, in the accompanying timeline, that RealVideo wasn't launched until 1997, long after Microsoft had built Windows Media Player into Windows 95 (though of course Video For Windows ran in 3.1). Real's founder Bob Glaser spent a decade as one of Bill Gates's senior lieutenants, and RealNetworks is based in Seattle, and Microsoft used to own 10% of RealNetworks, so I guess there's an outside chance somebody at Real also noticed this.....
