The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021)
Keep in mind that this isn&#x27;t an isolated case: Microsoft used this as a tactic with Quicktime amongst others. Their tactics were numerous, either bringing spurious error messages, stealing associations to bring error messages&#x2F;dodge the invocation of the competitor software or simply altering windows code to produce legitimate errors in competitor software.<p>That&#x27;s on top of plain old threatening other companies if they dared use technology that they were trying to suffocate.