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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by scarface74 on Monday June 03, 2019 @08:03PM (#20090368)
The anti trust case had nothing to do with MS losing dominance. It is still dominant on the desktop.

- it lost the browser war because it basically disbanded the team for years

- it lost the mobile market because they tried to do Windows everywhere.

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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by cpuguy83 on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:32PM (#20091251)
I would say the anti-trust case/ruling has certainly curtailed abusive behavior, though.
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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by scarface74 on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:16PM (#20091477)
The only “abusive” behavior it curtailed was not allowing them to forbid OEMs from installing alternate operating systems - that didn’t make a difference.
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