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upheld the original judgment. As a last resort, on December 19, Apple led
a petition, called a writ of certiorari, with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking
the justices to review the case. On February 21, 1995, the court refused to
hear the case, putting an end to the seven-year, $10 million legal battle.
The ruling was a mere technicality at that point because a much-
improved Windows 3.1 had by then come to dominate the personal
computer marketplace, with Apple’s Mac share hovering around 15 percent.
Even that small fraction of the market was slipping from Apple’s grasp by
“Windows 95 is the best thing ...