Microsoft Antitrust History
The cluster focuses on Microsoft's historical antitrust violations, particularly the US DOJ case over bundling Internet Explorer with Windows and abusing OS monopoly power to stifle competitors like Netscape.
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it could have something to do with the fact that microsoft has a history of bad behavior and abuse of their market dominance, perhaps?
lol, Microsoft has been doing this kind of thing for a while...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation#Antitrust
What Microsoft has done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
One of the things Microsoft got anti-trusted for back in the day
Sounds anti-competitive on Microsoft's part.
Smae with Microsoft and internet explorer. People could just choose not to buy windows. I guess anti trust laws have changed in the interim.
An HN comment explains the difference [0]:> The key nuance that triggered the government lawsuit was anti-competitive actions such as using obscure/undocumented Windows API functions to cripple Netscape and forcing computer manufacturers to avoid other software when licensing DOS/Windows. All of that is in the long document: https://www.justice.gov/atr/
Microsoft has some cheek accusing others of abusing market dominance!
Remember when microsoft had antitrust suits for the mere bundling of explorer? And how how much less nefarious that was!
It's anti competitive and analogous to Microsoft's behavior in the 90s