Re:I miss Windows Phone
by CodeWriter23 on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:14PM
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Neither was Microsoft a monopoly when they got their eyes sued out and a consent decree slapped on them simply for making their browser the default browser on their own OS. A lot less than Google did to stifle competition from WP.
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Microsoft was definitely a monopoly when the antitrust lawsuit was filed against them. There can be no antitrust lawsuit if you're not a monopoly, it pretty much is a requirement for such a lawsuit to be brought.
It's perfectly legal (and healthy in a free trade economy) to be a monopoly.
What's illegal is leveraging that monopoly to enter other markets, which is what Microsoft attempted to do.
Re:I miss Windows Phone
by michaelmrose on Sunday April 08, 2018 @03:05AM
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Did you miss the episode whereby ms belatedly tried to own web servers / web development in order to ensure a Windows client was a prerequisite to participation in the web?