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Apple got Gates proposal?
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October 5, 1998: 7:23 a.m. ET
Justice: Microsoft tried to keep Apple out of Windows market
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NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Microsoft executives apparently attempted to keep Apple's popular multimedia software out of the Windows software market by offering to help the smaller company in other markets.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Microsoft executive Don Bradford delivered a message earlier this year to Apple's chief technologist, Avi Tevanian. In it, he said that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates wanted Apple to keep its QuickTime software away from the Windows market, according to an account told by Apple to the Justice Department.
In exchange, Microsoft reportedly offered to help Apple in the smaller market for video-software tools. Apple reportedly declined the offer.
Both Bradford and Tevanian declined to discuss the alleged meeting with the Journal.
The Apple meeting is detailed in court documents and is expected to take center stage in the historic antitrust case against Microsoft, scheduled to begin next week. Another event, the alleged attempt by Microsoft to illegally persuade Netscape Communications Corp. to divide up the Internet-software market, is also expected to be a key part of the case.
Throughout the development of the case Microsoft has maintained that it has not engaged in any illegal activity and that antitrust claims are merely attempts by competitors to make gains in court that they could not make in the marketplace. 
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