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In the 1990s, Microsoft had arguably the best desktop operating system. They were executing on all cylinders and clearly doing things competitors couldn’t deliv
by r00fus 3y ago
In the 1990s, Microsoft had arguably the best desktop operating system. They were executing on all cylinders and clearly doing things competitors couldn’t deliver at the same scale.
That doesn’t mean that they weren’t guilty of being a coercive monopolist.
It’s quite possible this means that the Apple/Google deal is not allowed but only if Google is deemed to be abusing their market position.
- bad_user 3y agoYour argument isn't as strong as you'd like. Microsoft having a Windows monopoly wasn't illegal, what brought their antitrust case was distributing IExplorer with Windows, taking market share from Netscape. But in 2023, are there any operating systems that don't ship with a built-in browser? Is there any reality in which the browser isn't an integral part of the operating system? And then there's also the fact, which people forget, that IExplorer was a technically superior browser to Netscape's Navigator. It took a revamping of the organization, and of the product, to come up with a Firefox that could compete.