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> The DOJ antitrust people and the FTC got a lot of their teeth knocked out when they went after Microsoft in the 1990s. How do you mean? Microsoft got through
by DenisM 7y ago
> The DOJ antitrust people and the FTC got a lot of their teeth knocked out when they went after Microsoft in the 1990s.
How do you mean? Microsoft got throughly declawed in the 90s, and never regained their top predator status.
- Porthos9K 7y agoI think Microsoft got off relatively easily compared to AT&T and Standard Oil, but I was in the camp hoping they'd be forcibly partitioned so that the applications business was separate from the OS business, both of which were separate from Microsoft's hardware operations (which consisted mainly of peripherals, because they hadn't gotten into the game console business yet).
- fourthark 7y agoI was too. But at least all their scuzzy business practices were put to light, and they weren't able to behave that way anymore.
- skinnymuch 7y agoFor all we know Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon would all be much more powerful if Microsoft got split up. And maybe throw in a few other companies like Oracle.