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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by lonelappde on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:52AM (#22127960)
Do you know how many years and millions of dollars the US government spent prosecuting Microsoft for their belief that " web browser is something that needs to be on every computer"?
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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by Karunamon on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:00AM (#22128009)
Inaccurate. Microsoft was not prosecuted for merely including IE, they were prosecuted for forcing OEMs to not include anything else (Netscape).
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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by jchw on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:25AM (#22128802)
That’s, to my knowledge, a pretty big misrepresentation of the case, that from my understanding has quite a few facets.

> Microsoft would terminate Compaq's licence if it removed IE and substituted Netscape, or even if it put the Netscape icon alongside the Explorer one.

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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by wizzwizz4 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:11PM (#22133346)
That sounds like the G-suite on Android.
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