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by AnimalMuppet 1002 days ago
Microsoft was forced to limit their behavior. I don't recall them being forced to break up.

Did I miss something?

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....

> On June 7, 2000, the District Court ordered a breakup of Microsoft as its remedy.

Then

> Ultimately, the Circuit Court overturned Jackson's holding that Microsoft should be broken up as an illegal monopoly. However, the Circuit Court did not overturn Jackson's findings of fact, and held that traditional antitrust analysis was not equipped to consider software-related practices like browser tie-ins.

Ah, yes. I had forgotten that.