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Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by scarface74 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:32PM (#22378304)
That might have been their goal, but do you really think that it had anything to do with the rise of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the resurgence of Apple?

What had more effect on IE being toppled by Chrome, the government or the most popular website advertising it on their front page and bundling it with third party downloads?

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Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by dhimes on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:49PM (#22378482)
If Microsoft had built adblockers into IE from the beginning there would be no Google. But that was a strategic error, not due to law. And people were definitely on the Google bandwagon in part because of Microsoft. The "do no evil" motto was a direct shot at MS, and everybody felt relief.
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Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by scarface74 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:03PM (#22378599)
Only the geeks cared about the “do no evil”.
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Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by dhimes on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:21PM (#22378761)
Fair point.
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