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It's pretty hard to speculate with any certainty, but I suspect companies like Amazon and Google would have had much more difficulty growing if Microsoft had mo

It's pretty hard to speculate with any certainty, but I suspect companies like Amazon and Google would have had much more difficulty growing if Microsoft had more power to control their access to Windows users. In the same way that Google and Apple made it difficult to block ads on mobile or sideload apps without using the App/Play stores, MSFT would have found a way to get bigger slices of the Amazon retail and Google search pies.

yuppie_scum 4y ago
On the other hand, if as a result Facebook never existed (in its long-Zuckerberg form) the world could have been a better place.
- mgraczyk 4y ago
  Disagree that FB is a net negative, but it doesn't really matter since FB came over a decade later. I doubt MSFT antitrust would have had any predictable effect on anything that far in the future. Amazon came just two years later and GOOG 3-4.
  - redmen 4y ago
    - kjeetgill 4y ago
      I suppose it might depend on how old you are what you even see Facebook as. It's not that incredibly onesided a conversation that you can't even fathom a legitimate belief that Facebook, for all it's faults might still be a beer good.
      - redmen 4y ago
scarface74 4y ago
Google became popular because it was easy just to go to from a web browser. Microsoft was never going to block web pages. By the time Chrome came out, Firefox was already winning market share from IE when people just voluntarily downloaded it. No there was no browser choice mandate in the US. Chrome became popular because it was advertised on the most popular website in the US and bundled with other downloads. The government lawsuit had absolutely no effect.