Microsoft wasn't seen as a strategic asset back then, and the US wasn't in a semi cold war. In any case, I was talking about the concept of breaking up large n

Microsoft wasn't seen as a strategic asset back then, and the US wasn't in a semi cold war. In any case, I was talking about the concept of breaking up large national corporations moreso than this specific case, since the comment I was replying to was talking about how the US should start looking into breaking up Apple too. (Even then, I also gave SAP as an example, which perfectly fits the apple modus operandi of taking advantage of their closed ecosystem to destroy competition. but in a way that even apple couldn't ever dream of. And once you get into said ecosystem, you will start using the gigantic constellation of SAP products and be locked in to the extreme. Impairing competitors would be putting it lightly. Yet, no European probe either.)