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Interesting, do you have some links exploring this topic further?
by the_duke 7y ago
Interesting, do you have some links exploring this topic further?
- macintux 7y agoThis is a too-brief but interesting oral history: https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-... Gates was a business shark before the trial. Absolutely ruthless. It’s hard to say how much of the changes are due to the court case, vs a changing technical landscape, vs the company growing to an enormous size, vs Gates simply getting older, but certainly after there were far fewer stories about his passion for crushing any company that might compete with him. And promising to support Office on the Mac after Jobs returned to Apple definitely smells of a response to anti-trust concerns, and it was critical at that point in time to Apple.