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Do you think Microsoft’s consent decree had any impact on Windows being a monopoly? It didn’t. Microsoft still gets a cut of almost every PC sold. It is valu
by parasubvert 6y ago
Do you think Microsoft’s consent decree had any impact on Windows being a monopoly?
It didn’t. Microsoft still gets a cut of almost every PC sold. It is valued up their with Amazon and Apple in the trillions.
The difference is that no one cares anymore because new platforms arose in Android and iOS, and Windows mobile failed.
In this case, people are requesting a far more extreme remedy: that iOS and Android and their stores become regulated like public utilities.
- simion314 6y agoWithout that pressure Intel and Microsoft would have become even more evil. I think that MS and Intel needed a giant punch for the anti-competitive things they did or tried to do. Intel is still crippling AMD CPUs and they just have to put somewhere one the web a disclaimer(well hidden). If Intel could lockdown their CPU to run only Intel approved apps then Linux and the BSDs would have been hit hard, maybe OSX would not have existed (Apple used and still uses open source code)