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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by marginalia_nu on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:28AM (#35800473)
Well on paper at least, the US has antitrust laws going back to the Sherman Act and Standard Oil.

Microsoft was basically inches away from being broken up in the late '90s due to their anti-competitive practices.

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by sleepybrett on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:08PM (#35804097)
They absolutely should have been and if they were we probably wouldn't have the amazon or google we have today.
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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by justinclift on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:32PM (#35804396)
I'm kind of hoping the EU decides to pick MS up on this, with a 2nd go around of "abusing their monopoly on the desktop".

Maybe this time they'll break MS into small pieces. :)

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by peoplefromibiza on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:25PM (#35822930)
> Well on paper at least, the US has antitrust laws going back to the Sherman Act and Standard Oil.

That's my point.

China got their "Antimonopoly law" in 2007.

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