All the executives at Microsoft watched the launch of AmigaOS with an almost constant expression of wry amusement.
The main reason was that Tommy Hawk's WinStar Corporation had scheduled AmigaOS's launch date a week before Microsoft's originally planned May 22 release of Windows 3.0.
Moreover, that bastard Tommy Hawk played dirty; he got numerous small developers from Stanford University to report to theUnited States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), claiming that Microsoft was trying to bribe competitors to develop software for other operating systems, thus ensuring it wouldn't fall into an anti-competitive or antitrust investigation, allowing it to dominate the application software market share.