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by BrockSamson 2839 days ago
Seems Microsoft learned nothing from the anti-trust cases of the 90's
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Perhaps the opposite. Seems they've learned to push forward and never again fall behind.
Well they did learn to sell a better image convincing even the ever-cynical HackerNews apparently, looking at the threads of last months.
Hacker News has been plagued with PR companies pushing the content it wants you to see for some time.
True. Personally I didn't fall for their show and I have continued not to use many of their technologies. .Net Core? No thanks, I have Go, Java, Racket, even Haskell.
You mean when microsoft used their dominant OS position to drive Netscape out of existence? When IE went from 0% browser market share to over 90%?

It seems to me they learned a lot. That using monopoly advantage to attack the competition works like a charm and that anti-trust cases are toothless.

Microsoft essentially "won" the anti-trust case since they weren't broken up.

Right, apart from the fact that this was ~20 years ago and they've been losing marketshare ever since, and completely failed at mobile.

They're still attacking the competition but they're not doing a very good job of it.

Their punishment wasn't exactly severe
You do have a very good point
They learned to contribute more to political campaigns?