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It seems to have worked well. I doubt you're using Internet Explorer to respond to me. The antitrust case was about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. It
by dumbfoundded 6y ago
It seems to have worked well. I doubt you're using Internet Explorer to respond to me.
The antitrust case was about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. It was called the Browser Wars and related to preventing Netscape from competing. The result is pretty obvious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
- scarface74 6y agoIt was also about operating systems and productivity software. Now instead of having an operating system vendor with 80% market share now we have an ad vendor. Win???? Meet the new boss....
- dumbfoundded 6y agoThose investigations were closed. Maybe it's more of a failure of the legal system than anything. The one thing that sticked actually seemed to work in the long run. Isn't this whole conversation around Google being a monopoly? Yes, a new boss and hopefully a new antitrust case. Hopefully more sticks this time.
- scarface74 6y agoHow did an antitrust lawsuit that ended in 2002, lead to MS losing browser market share a decade later? Even if you do count that as a victory - it was still only 1 out of 3 areas that the government went after MS for. Since when was 33% score considered a success? And the largest anti trust lawsuit before that in technology was IBM. It started in 1969 and it was dismissed in 1983 and nothing came of it. Maybe the government is just incapable of understanding let alone regulating tech?