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Microsoft was forced to limit their behavior. I don't recall them being forced to break up. Did I miss something?
by AnimalMuppet 3y ago
Microsoft was forced to limit their behavior. I don't recall them being forced to break up.
Did I miss something?
- dmoy 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C.... > On June 7, 2000, the District Court ordered a breakup of Microsoft as its remedy. Then > Ultimately, the Circuit Court overturned Jackson's holding that Microsoft should be broken up as an illegal monopoly. However, the Circuit Court did not overturn Jackson's findings of fact, and held that traditional antitrust analysis was not equipped to consider software-related practices like browser tie-ins.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoAh, yes. I had forgotten that.