Gates said Novell just couldn’t deliver a Windows 95-compatible WordPerfect program in time for its rollout, and its own Word program was actually better. Novell is now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group, the result of a merger that was completed earlier this year. Novell says it was later forced to sell WordPerfect at a $1.2 billion loss. antitrust laws through its arrangements with other software makers when it launched Windows 95. Utah-based Novell sued Microsoft in 2004, claiming the Redmond, Wash., company violated U.S. Gates was the first witness to testify Monday as Microsoft lawyers presented their case in the trial that’s been ongoing in federal court in Salt Lake City for about a month. “It was the most challenging, trying project we had ever done.” “We worked super hard,” the Microsoft co-founder said. SALT LAKE CITY - Microsoft’s Windows 95 rollout presented the most challenges in the company’s history, leading to several last-minute changes to technical features that would no longer support a rival software maker’s word processor, Bill Gates testified Monday in a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit filed by the creator of WordPerfect.
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