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One thing that happened after the finding of fact (in early 2000) is that the Microsoft stock price fell in half and stayed roughly at that value for the next ~15 years. So even if the actual government anti-trust actions didn't seem that dramatic, there was definitely a measurable effect.

As someone who was at Microsoft during this era and down in Silicon Valley in the 2000's, I'm very much glad that it did happen. Although I did make money while I was at Microsoft, it's difficult for me to imagine how the things I worked on after I left (such as an early consumer smartphone) would have been possible with Microsoft at full strength.