> Given their history of legal troubles I was pretty surprised at how brazen Microsoft I mean they won right? The competitive advantage the bundling has given

> Given their history of legal troubles I was pretty surprised at how brazen Microsoft I mean they won right? The competitive advantage the bundling has given them is enormous. And while un-bundling it now will stop "additional benefits" it won't in any form remove the benefits they already got. E.g. companies which are on a bundled plan and use both are now used to it and their cross integrations (which won't go away) so as long as it's price wise competitive with other solutions they likely will keep it and now pay for both. As long as anit-monpoly low doesn't 1) penalizes based on the long term benefits gained 2) shifts more to anti-massiv-power-abuse laws in their phrasing/formulation/public discourse we will just see stuff like that happening again and again. We sadly life in a world where huge companies braking the law is the norm as long as it's expected to yield them noticeable more money then the fall out through penalties and publicity. And that isn't just limited to vague laws like monopoly power abuse, e.g. Ubers operation is quite not so fully legal in a lot of countries.