Microsoft Wins Bristol Contract Lawsuit

In a stunning victory for the software giant, Microsoft has been cleared of antitrust violations brought against it by Bristol Technology, a software vendor that critically relied on Windows NT source code to continue its product line.

The jury found that Microsoft's well-known use of the word "partner" in the contract should have ably warned Bristol of Microsoft's inevitable turncoat action.

"We find Microsoft innocent in allowing the contract lapse, because of its numerous use of the word 'partner' in the license," read the foreman when the jury returned after three minutes of deliberation. "Any reasonable person in the software field knows this key word is a predictor that Microsoft will turn their back on them.

"Bristol is negligent in believing it would be treated any differently."

After the verdict was delivered, Microsoft spokesman Hugh Sless-Flak said it was a vindication of their business practices.

"We always include numerous codes in our contracts, letting people know what we plan to do to them," he said. "They shouldn't be allowed to greedily sue us after the fact, due to their own tardiness in deciphering our intents."

The judgement has sent other companies scrambling to carefully reexamine their own contracts with the Redmond company.

"I think we're in trouble," said an unnamed source in the nuclear industry. "They not only use the word 'partner' in our contract over 200 times, they also mention 'innovation' [the code word to steal the technology] twice."

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