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If Microsoft bundling a browser is antitrust, why isn’t this?

• aianus 9y ago
  The logic was that Windows had 98% market share and iOS/macOS only around 50%. Ergo no dominant market position to abuse.
• adventured 9y ago
  Browser bundling was among the lower offenses they went after Microsoft for. What they did to OEMs is really what buried their anti-trust case. For example, the first DOJ anti-trust lawsuit in 1994 was primarily about OEM contract/licensing abuses, and set the stage for what came later.
• saratogacx 9y ago
  MSFT wasn't busted for bundling the browser but it was busted for forcing OEM's to not include any 3rd party browser. To get the OEM pricing for the OS, you had to agree that your OS image would not include any software that would compete with IE.