> If Microsoft could have easily gotten around the effects of a breakup, I'd expect almost everything about that fight to be different. you are right and i pre

> If Microsoft could have easily gotten around the effects of a breakup, I'd expect almost everything about that fight to be different. you are right and i pretty much forgotten about that. microsoft fought a similar battle in europe with the same legal outcome and basically resulting in a "browser pick" splash when you installed the OS and that was about it. that's a story where there was actually taken some action. but, for example, for years it's been frowned upon that companies like apple "bank" their money in, for example, ireland and get away with not paying taxes in the countries they actually have offices. that's a story where there has been no action for a (known) issue like the one described in the aticle. so how likely will it be that tech giants will create a legal entity abroad, hosting their platform, whilst they will continue to be the biggest player on that platform? i'm not saying ms. warren doesn't have a point, just that it seams that this is just another "symptom control" item which sounds politically correct, but won't get any traction in the "real world"