San Francisco Canyon Company was a software developer company that were contracted by Apple Computer in 1992 to port the QuickTime technology to Microsoft Windows. They made their first release of QuickTime for Windows in November 1992.

In July 1993, Intel contracted the San Francisco Canyon Company to improve the performance of Microsoft's Video for Windows technology on Intel processors. By the end of 1993, Intel and Microsoft had combined their efforts to improve Video for Windows by creating a joint technology called Display Control Interface , that was included in version 1.1d of Video for Windows.

The lawsuit "Apple Computer v. San Francisco Canyon Co.", filed on December 6 1994, alleged that the San Francisco Canyon Company used some of the code developed under contract to Apple, in their additions to Video for Windows. Apple expanded the lawsuit to include Intel and Microsoft on February 10 1995. In March 1995, Microsoft released version 1.1e of Video for Windows, that removed all of the code contributed by the San Francisco Canyon Company, stating in the release notes does not include the low-level driver code that was licensed from Intel Corporation.

Reference

• Carlton, Jim (1997). Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders. Random House. ISBN 0887309658.

External links

• An Open Letter to the Computing Community - written by Apple's Michael Mace (February 9, 1995)
• Second open letter from Apple - written by Apple's Michael Mace