Microsoft didn't lose anything. > It is Southwestern Bell, which bought the AT&T brand in the bankruptcy fire sale and renamed itself. Southwestern Bell was t

Microsoft didn't lose anything. > It is Southwestern Bell, which bought the AT&T brand in the bankruptcy fire sale and renamed itself. Southwestern Bell was the same subsidiary that broke off from AT&T Corporation. AT&T Inc was the merger of the companies that were originally broken up from AT&T Corporation. Here is the org chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T#Chart_of_AT&T_Baby_Bells https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T#Chart_of_AT&T_Baby_Bell... AT&T became even bigger after the breakup: https://www.businessinsider.com/att-breakup-1982-directv-bell-system-2018-02 https://www.businessinsider.com/att-breakup-1982-directv-bel... You think that AT&T Corporation going broke and selling to a company that originated from the AT&T Corporation, which later renamed itself to AT&T Inc is a good example of a government-imposed corporate breakup?! It literally divested from those companies only to have most of them merge under the same name again.