What was the end result of the MS anti-trust stuff? Clearly they weren't broken up; did it have much of an impact on their business? I assume some fines were paid after a long appeals process?
It's hard to make a good argument that amazon is (or could be) a monopoly. It's more like google or Walmart where they're just really big and their scale makes them hard (not impossible, maybe unrewarding) to compete with.
The result of the 2007 antitrust case was that microsoft could not ship IE anymore, but instead had to offer users a dialog offering to install chrome, firefox, IE or others from 2010 on.
This was part of why Chrome quickly rose after that. The other part was that Google became anticompetitive.
Yeah, Netscape was the main browser impacted by the Microsoft anti-trust case.
(The Netscape source code -- released in part because Netscape was dying --if I recall ended up forming the basis of Firefox, so it's fair to speculate "what ifs" if the Microsoft anti-trust judgement was more swift.)
> Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google.[11] It was first released in 2008, for Microsoft Windows
> BrowserChoice.eu was a website created in March 2010 as the result of the decision in the European Union Microsoft competition case. The case involved legal proceedings by the EU against Microsoft and found that, by including Internet Explorer (IE) with their market-dominant Windows operating system, Microsoft had used their dominance of the operating system market to also create a dominant market position in the web browser market.
I’m confused, what are you trying to say? Chrome didn’t exist until 2017?
I've never known whether European antitrust (or privacy) action against companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook has had significant global/US effect. Do you (or anyone else) know of a good source on this?
It's hard to make a good argument that amazon is (or could be) a monopoly. It's more like google or Walmart where they're just really big and their scale makes them hard (not impossible, maybe unrewarding) to compete with.