Thanks to TedC for this
link.
“Microsoft is still lobbing some missiles on its business
partners, antitrust trial be damned. At Intel’s Pentium III Xeon
launch last week, a group of vendors had planned to demonstrate the
performance of Pentium III Xeon-equipped systems from Gateway and
Micron running Oracle8–and Red Hat Linux. When Microsoft heard
that two of its primary OEMs were planning to run Linux in public,
the Redmondians dusted off their thumbscrews and convinced Gateway
and Micron to pull out of the demo unless Windows NT took the place
of Linux. Guess which operating system won out?”