Steven McGeady is a former Intel executive best known as a witness in the Microsoft Antitrust Trial. United States v Microsoft There were many civil actions taking place in May 18 1998 His notes contained colorful quotes by Microsoft executives threatening to "cut off Netscape's air supply" and Bill Gates' guess that "this anti-trust thing will blow over". Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is an American computer services company Attorney David Boies said that McGeady's testimony showed him to be "an extremely conscientious, capable and honest witness," while Microsoft portrayed him as someone with an "axe to grind. David Boies (born March 11, 1941) is a Lawyer and Chairman of Boies Schiller & Flexner. "^[1] McGeady left Intel in 2000, but later again gained notoriety for defending his former employee Mike Hawash after his arrest on federal terrorism charges. Maher Mofeid "Mike" Hawash is a Palestinian -born American Engineer now serving a 7-year Prison sentence for conspiring to aid the He is a member of the Reed College Board of Trustees and the PNCA Board of Governors, and lives in Portland, Oregon. Reed College is a private, independent Liberal arts college located in southeast Portland Oregon. The Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA is a college in Portland, Oregon, United States that grants Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees and Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers

Contents 1 Early life 2 Intel 3 Microsoft trials 4 Other activities 5 Mike Hawash case 6 References 7 External links

Early life

Steven McGeady was born to a foreman of Bethlehem Steel in Washington, D.C.. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D ^[2] After high school he briefly attending Purdue University in Indiana. The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union ^[2] Then in 1976 he enrolled at Portland, Oregon’s Reed College. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers Reed College is a private, independent Liberal arts college located in southeast Portland Oregon. ^[2] While attending Reed College from 1977-1980, he studied Physics and Philosophy, but did not graduate. The majority of his time was occupied by hanging out at the school’s computer center where he and friends would experiment with a Digital Equipment Corp. computer donated by the founder of Tektronix, the first in the Northwest to run the Unix operating system. Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the Computer industry Tektronix Inc is a North American company best known for its test and measurement equipment such as Oscilloscopes Logic analyzers, and video and mobile Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer ^[2]

After college, McGeady was a software engineering manager at Ann Arbor Terminals and Oregon based Tektronix. Then in 1985 he joined Intel where in 1991 he co-founded the Intel Architecture Labs in Hillsboro. Intel Architecture Labs, also known as IAL, was the Personal Computer system research and development arm of Intel Corporation during the 1990s Hillsboro is a city in and the County seat of Washington County, Oregon, United States ^[2] In 1993, he was promoted to a vice president position at the company. ^[2]

Intel

At the time of his departure in June of 2000, McGeady was Vice President of Intel Corporation's New Business Group. During 15 years at Intel, he led a variety of software, marketing, and investment initiatives for Intel, including the i960 RISC microprocessor software development, Intel's digital video and multimedia research, Intel's first Internet development group, and a group focused on Internet-based healthcare delivery. Intel 's i960 (or 80960) was a RISC -based Microprocessor design that became popular during the early 1990s as an embedded

McGeady was a co-founder of the Intel Architecture Labs, a research and development group focused on advancing the personal-computer platform. Intel Architecture Labs, also known as IAL, was the Personal Computer system research and development arm of Intel Corporation during the 1990s McGeady ran the software, multimedia, data security, and Internet programs within this group for most of the 1990s. Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content forms. Data security is the means of ensuring that Data is kept safe from corruption and that access to it is suitably controlled The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks His group developed Intel's ProShare video-conferencing technology, the Indeo video compression technology, and Intel's Display Control Interface and VXD graphics software, later licensed to Microsoft to form the core of DirectX. Indeo Video (commonly known now simply as "Indeo" is a Video codec developed by Intel in 1992 VxD is the Device driver model used in Microsoft Windows/386, the 386 enhanced mode of Windows 3 Microsoft DirectX is a collection of Application programming interfaces (APIs for handling tasks related to Multimedia, especially Game programming and His research group worked with the MIT Media Lab, Xerox PARC, and other groups, and developed early prototypes of Digital video recorders, video broadcast servers, and other technologies. The MIT Media Lab (also known as the Media Lab) is a department within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Inc formerly Xerox PARC, is a Research and development company in Palo Alto California that began as a division of ^[3]

As manager of the i960 software development tools team from 1986-1996, McGeady was an early developer and promoter of the Richard Stallman's GNU C compiler and tools. Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16 1953 often abbreviated " rms " is an American software freedom activist GNU ( pronounced) is a computer Operating system composed entirely of Free software. McGeady wrote the i960 target for gcc and led the team that developed a suite of tools including a globally-optimizing, trace-driven optimizer for gcc and the first gdb port to a remote, stand-alone system. The GNU Compiler Collection (usually shortened to GCC) is a set of Compilers produced for various Programming languages by the GNU Project The GNU Debugger, usually called just GDB, is the standard Debugger for the GNU software system

McGeady was Vice-President of Intel's Multimedia, Communications, and Internet activities from 1990 through 1996, where he led the development of the first desktop video-compression software for the PC, Intel's early implementations of multimedia network broadcast protocols, the first products to combine television and web pages, online virtual communities, the Java language, and data security infrastructure.

As a software engineer and developer, McGeady was often a minority voice at hardware-dominated Intel. In 1996 he was asked by then-CEO Andy Grove to take a job as Grove's assistant, and is the only known person to turn the job down. Andrew Stephen Grove (Gróf András István (born 2 September 1936) is a Hungarian - American Businessman and scientist Grove later said that he and Intel would have grasped the importance of the Internet to the company more quickly had McGeady taken the job. ^[4] McGeady had a less positive relationship with succeeding CEO Craig Barrett, reportedly telling Barrett to "pound sand" when Barrett instructed him not to testify in the Microsoft case. Craig Barrett may refer to Craig Barrett (athlete Craig Barrett (businessman ^[5]

Microsoft trials

In 1998, McGeady was a witness for the US Department of Justice in the U. S. vs. Microsoft anti-trust case, where he testified about Microsoft's attempts to control Intel's software efforts, as well as their behavior toward Netscape and Sun's Javasoft. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is an American computer services company Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services He was the only executive from the PC industry to testify for the government. McGeady testified that Microsoft, opposed Intel's 1995 work on a new technology called Native Signal Processing, which would have used instructions from Intel's chips, rather than software code from Microsoft, to run multimedia and communications programs more quickly.

McGeady testified for the government and against Microsoft despite pressure from inside Intel. Intel's then-COO Craig Barrett instructed McGeady not to cooperate with Department of Justice attorneys, but "He [told] Barrett to go stuff it". Craig Barrett may refer to Craig Barrett (athlete Craig Barrett (businessman ^[6]

McGeady also claimed in his testimony^[7] that Microsoft Vice-President Paul Maritz had described, in a meeting at Intel, Microsoft's plan to "embrace, extend, [and] extinguish" the HTML standard until it would be incompatible with the Netscape browser. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Paul Maritz (born 1955 is CEO of VMware Corporation (NYSEVMW and a past senior executive at Microsoft. " Embrace extend and extinguish," also known as " Embrace extend and exterminate," is a phrase that the U HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is an American computer services company ^[8] While this term had some currency before his 1998 testimony, this was its first prominent public exposure. ^[9] Documents presented by the government showed Microsoft was concerned about McGeady: "Steve McGeady remains an issue for us. He is a champion of Java, and a believer that the day of bloatware is over," wrote Microsoft VP Paul Maritz in an email to Bill Gates. Paul Maritz (born 1955 is CEO of VMware Corporation (NYSEVMW and a past senior executive at Microsoft. If you would like to experiment with Wikipedia please copy He has more IQ than most [people at Intel]. "^[10]

In November 1998, McGeady testified that Microsoft leveraged its monopoly power in Windows to impeded Intel's ability to compete with Microsoft in areas involving system software and influence of OEMs:^[11]

• McGeady testified that Microsoft feared competition from Intel's software development: At an August 2, 1995 meeting Bill Gates allegedly threatened to terminate Windows support for Intel's new microprocessors unless they were able to "get alignment" between Intel and MS on Intel's Internet and communications software programs, and Gates allegedly told Andy Grove to shut down the Intel Architecture Labs, the organization driving Intel's Internet program. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Andrew Stephen Grove (Gróf András István (born 2 September 1936) is a Hungarian - American Businessman and scientist Intel Architecture Labs, also known as IAL, was the Personal Computer system research and development arm of Intel Corporation during the 1990s

• McGeady testified that Microsoft was upset that Intel "shifting the software boundary" without Microsoft's permission: IAL's development of Native Signal Processing (NSP) program caused this concern. Host Signal Processing (HSP is a term used in computing to describe hardware such as a Modem or printer which is emulated (to various degrees in software NSP was a layer of software that interfaced with both the Windows OS and the hardware in order to support realtime audio, realtime video, and 3D graphics. According to McGeady, NSP threatened Microsoft because it was software at operating system level, while Microsoft believed they "owned software to the metal," (i. e. to the hardware level). (10AM17, 12PM13) Ultimately, Andy Grove admitted that Intel "caved" by retracting NSP.

• Microsoft was concerned about IAL: Gates allegedly said regarding Intel Architecture Labs: "Having 700 software engineers running around in the industry is an okay thing as long as Microsoft knows what they’re doing first. " According to McGeady, they did not want to relinquish control over any application interfaces to Intel. To take advantage of multimedia hardware, Intel was writing device drivers that allowed application developers direct control of (e. g. ) graphics and video devices. To prevent this Microsoft threatened to continue bad-mouthing IAL’s software and to withhold support for Intel’s MMX microprocessor. MMX is a single instruction multiple data (SIMD Instruction set designed by Intel, introduced in 1997 in their Pentium line of

• McGeady testified that Microsoft used its monopoly power in Windows to restrict support for Netscape and Java, and to their plans to compete with Netscape through predatory pricing, through the leveraging of their Windows OS monopoly, and through the creation of incompatible HTML standards:
  • Netscape: McGeady testified that Microsoft generally discouraged Intel from working with Netscape, and that Gates allegedly urged Groves to push Intel’s internal information technology group away from Netscape's server toward Microsoft's IIS, and stressed that it was "very important" that Intel "NOT ever publicly say they are standardizing on Netscape browsers. " McGeady testified to Microsoft's three prong strategy to defeat Netscape: they allegedly stated that they would "cut off Netscape’s air supply" by giving away Internet Explorer for free, preventing Netscape from deriving any revenue from its browser; that Microsoft asserted they would "fight with the OS and the apps arm", meaning they would create dependencies between Windows and the browser that would create advantages for their browser over Netscape's; and MS's professed strategy of "embrace, extend, extinguish", planning to "extend" the HTML standard to the point where it would be incompatible with the Netscape browser.
  • Java: McGeady testified that Microsoft made it clear to that Intel support for Java would be a "show stopper" in Intel's relationship with Microsoft, threatening to terminate cooperation that Intel required for new microprocessors. Microsoft allegedly proposed that Intel help them prevent the Java component model from becoming a de facto standard by developing a Java system incompatible with Sun's, defeating Java’s "write once, run anywhere" capabilities, and tying Java to Windows. Microsoft would distribute this Java Virtual Machine as part of Internet Explorer, a variant of MS’s "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy. When Microsoft learned that McGeady's group at Intel had implemented its own Java VM and multimedia class libraries that ran very fast on the Intel architecture, Microsoft became very upset that Intel was working in Java. McGeady testified that Microsoft pressed Intel to stop this work.

The DoJ made four major arguments based on McGeady's testimony:

1. Intel and its software development effort were hampered by Microsoft's bully tactics;
2. Microsoft used Intel against Netscape in the "Browser Wars";
3. McGeady was an expert witness on software standards, innovation and competition; and
4. McGeady felt Microsoft hampered Java development.

Microsoft, in their response to McGeady's testimony, made the point that his testimony contained several pro-Microsoft threads, and that Intel practiced similar cross product subsidization, distributing free Intel Architecture Labs software funded by microprocessor revenues. They also claimed that Microsoft's influence over Intel and its microprocessors was unrelated to the downstream software segment.

Cross-examination of McGeady revealed conflicting interpretations of many Microsoft/Intel meetings, differing reasons for Intel's decisions, and the McGeady's anti-Microsoft bias:

1. Microsoft defended its attempts to coordinate strategy with Intel and tried to dispel the bully image;
2. Microsoft presented reasons for the discontinuation of Intel's Native Signal Processing initiative;
3. Microsoft highlighted Intel practices that resemble Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behavior;
4. Microsoft defended its Java program; and
5. Microsoft aggressively attacked McGeady to discredit him as a witness.

McGeady's notes suggested that portions of his testimony could be considered embellishments or stories heard in other contexts, and he was frequently forced to suggest that he had a recollection of meetings and conversations superior to that of other Intel officials, as well as Netscape officers. Microsoft revealed Intel documents that painted McGeady as a "prima donna" who was criticized for his department's belligerence toward Microsoft.

Microsoft claimed that McGeady's actions suggested that he considered himself above Intel policy and an extra-corporate defender of truth and justice in the Internet world, and McGeady openly suggested that Intel's interference with Microsoft would aid the industry. McGeady admitted leaking confidential information to The New York Times journalist John Markoff, and met with Netscape's Jim Clark to keep Netscape from being complacent about the threat from Microsoft. John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is a Journalist best known for his work at the The New York Times, and a book and series of articles Documents show McGeady envisioning entrapping Microsoft in an anti-trust suit, and later he indirectly volunteered to testify against Microsoft.

McGeady was called again to testify in the 2001 remedy phase of the Microsoft trial.

Other activities

During 1996/97, McGeady was a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab, pursuing research on emergent and self-organizing behavior in computer networks. The MIT Media Lab (also known as the Media Lab) is a department within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During this time he was a keynote speaker at the first Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society. His speech from the event, "The Digital Reformation: Freedom, Risk, Responsibility" was reprinted in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. ^[12] During 1997 and 1998, Mr. McGeady was a member of the NSTB committee on Information Systems Trustworthiness, and is a co-author of its book on the subject. ^[13]

Mike Hawash case

McGeady entered the news again in 2003 because of his defense of his former Intel employee Mike Hawash who was arrested at Intel in early 2003. Maher Mofeid "Mike" Hawash is a Palestinian -born American Engineer now serving a 7-year Prison sentence for conspiring to aid the McGeady organized a defense fund and protested Hawash's 6-week incommunicado detention without charge. Hawash ultimately pled guilty to conspiring to aid the Taliban in fighting against U. The Taliban ( طالبان, also anglicised as Taleban; translation "students" is a Sunni Islamist, predominately S. forces in Afghanistan, and received a reduced sentence in the so-called Portland Seven case in exchange for testifying against some of his co-conspirators. Afghanistan /æfˈgænɪstæn/ officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, The Portland Seven was a group of American Muslims from the Portland Oregon area Arrested in October 2002 as part of an FBI

References

External links

• New York Times: Star Witness Against Microsoft Finds a Wary Vindication
• Washington Post
• McGeady: Microsoft threats killed Intel's multimedia software twice

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