The Allchin and Majidmehr e-mails surface as just a few of the 3,186 exhibits made public last week in the Comes v. Microsoft trial. One of the key issues of the case is the company's alleged failure to properly disclose APIs to competitors, a term of a 2002 settlement reached in a dispute with the federal government. It was suggested that Microsoft APIs favoured Internet Explorer, thereby making it difficult for rival web browsers to compete. Majidmehr replied by saying Microsoft was planning incentives, in the form of money, technical support and a direct interface. Failing that, the strategy would be either to build a unique Microsoft player, or to speak with Apple and "open up a dialog [sic] for support of the iPod" within Media Player. By late 2003, Apple had already released a Windows version of iTunes.