That's not the thing that got Microsoft into trouble. >Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findings of fact on November 5, 1999, which stated that Microso

That's not the thing that got Microsoft into trouble. >Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findings of fact on November 5, 1999, which stated that Microsoft's dominance of the x86-based personal computer operating systems market constituted a monopoly, and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats to that monopoly, including Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Software, RealNetworks, Linux, and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor.... It's the taking actions to crush threats to that monopoly part of the equation that got Microsoft into trouble.