[bad_user]

> Antitrust problems generally happen when you coerce a company into something using your monopoly power

So Microsoft buying Intel wouldn't generate antitrust problems?

[nl]

Microsoft is a special case because of their previous antitrust problems. I'm sure it would be investigated, and with a merger of companies that big I suspect lobbying and politics will have as much effect as the law itself.

But at a very superficial level: MS & Intel are in different markets, so there is no obvious objection.

IANAL etc etc