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Chrome didn't exist until 7 years after the case was decided and settled.

by subway 10y ago

kuschku 10y ago
> Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google.[11] It was first released in 2008, for Microsoft Windows > BrowserChoice.eu was a website created in March 2010 as the result of the decision in the European Union Microsoft competition case. The case involved legal proceedings by the EU against Microsoft and found that, by including Internet Explorer (IE) with their market-dominant Windows operating system, Microsoft had used their dominance of the operating system market to also create a dominant market position in the web browser market. I’m confused, what are you trying to say? Chrome didn’t exist until 2017?
- areyousure 10y ago
  The case referenced by most US commenters would be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C.... I've never known whether European antitrust (or privacy) action against companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook has had significant global/US effect. Do you (or anyone else) know of a good source on this?
  - kuschku 10y ago
    Ah okay – I’ve never heard of the US antitrust case, so I don’t know what effects it had. Regarding effects of BrowserChoice, Opera had some statistics: https://web.archive.org/web/20111209114445/http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2010/03/18/the-choice-screen-effect https://web.archive.org/web/20111209114445/http://my.opera.c... Mozilla also reports how much they lost due to BrowserChoice not running for a while – BrowserChoice had almost doubled their overall download rate: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-lost-6-9-million-downloads-in-eu-browser-choice-glitch/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-lost-6-9-million-downlo...
soundwave106 10y ago
Yeah, Netscape was the main browser impacted by the Microsoft anti-trust case. (The Netscape source code -- released in part because Netscape was dying --if I recall ended up forming the basis of Firefox, so it's fair to speculate "what ifs" if the Microsoft anti-trust judgement was more swift.)

Chrome didn't exist until 7 years after the case was decided and settled.

by subway 10y ago

Chrome didn't exist until 7 years after the case was decided and settled.

> Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google.[11] It was first released in 2008, for Microsoft Windows > BrowserChoice.eu was a website created in March 2010 as the result of the decision in the European Union Microsoft competition case. The case involved legal proceedings by the EU against Microsoft and found that, by including Internet Explorer (IE) with their market-dominant Windows operating system, Microsoft had used their dominance of the operating system market to also create a dominant market position in the web browser market. I’m confused, what are you trying to say? Chrome didn’t exist until 2017?

areyousure 10y ago
The case referenced by most US commenters would be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C.... I've never known whether European antitrust (or privacy) action against companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook has had significant global/US effect. Do you (or anyone else) know of a good source on this?
- kuschku 10y ago
  Ah okay – I’ve never heard of the US antitrust case, so I don’t know what effects it had. Regarding effects of BrowserChoice, Opera had some statistics: https://web.archive.org/web/20111209114445/http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2010/03/18/the-choice-screen-effect https://web.archive.org/web/20111209114445/http://my.opera.c... Mozilla also reports how much they lost due to BrowserChoice not running for a while – BrowserChoice had almost doubled their overall download rate: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-lost-6-9-million-downloads-in-eu-browser-choice-glitch/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-lost-6-9-million-downlo...

soundwave106 10y ago

Yeah, Netscape was the main browser impacted by the Microsoft anti-trust case. (The Netscape source code -- released in part because Netscape was dying --if I recall ended up forming the basis of Firefox, so it's fair to speculate "what ifs" if the Microsoft anti-trust judgement was more swift.)