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The article is paywalled, but don't you have to be a monopoly to get in trouble with antitrust? This isn't the 2000s, microsoft is not really a monopoly anymore
by bawolff 2y ago
The article is paywalled, but don't you have to be a monopoly to get in trouble with antitrust? This isn't the 2000s, microsoft is not really a monopoly anymore.
- bediger4000 2y agoMicrosoft wasn't very technically a monopoly even then. Macintosh had some tiny share of desktop computing, and about 1% of desktops ran weird things like SunOS, or Linux. A company doesn't have to have a pure, simple monopoly to have adverse effects on the market and consumers, or to reap monopoly rents.
- bawolff 2y agoSure, but they effectively had one - 99% is pretty close and customers don't have a lot of real choice in such a scenario. Allegedly this investigation is about Azure, which isn't even the market leader let alone a monopoly. There is a big difference between having 99% of the market, and having 20% of the market.