The Wikipedia page does not make this clear but Microsoft did not actually lose on the tying claim. The district court ruled against them but this was appealed

The Wikipedia page does not make this clear but Microsoft did not actually lose on the tying claim. The district court ruled against them but this was appealed and the appeals court vacated that ruling and remanded the case for further analysis (which never happened as the case was then later settled). > They not only lost that case, but the initial judgement was that the company was to be broken up. That judgement was also vacated by the appeals court who concluded that the district court "failed to provide an adequate explanation for the relief it ordered".