Remember 1998 When Microsoft The Monopoly Giant Was Charged For Antitrust Laws?

This Bill Gates video is from 1998 when he acted like he didn’t understand what the word concern meant when he was being asked about his Monopoly and what web browsers concerned him as competition. Microsoft still dominates the computer industry and like the one article below saysShow more

“What’s an occasional billion dollar fine to one of the most profitable companies on the planet? Especially when they’re a monopoly making $100 billion dollars a year that towers over the DOJs own $25 billion dollar budget?”
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This is how it works when you have money, look at FedEX and the hundreds of millions they spend settling lawsuits about their drivers not being subcontractors. Those hundreds of millions are cheaper to pay than following the law so this will continue to happen.

Look at Asplundh the family company of Dr. Oz and how they hold the largest ICE fine in history because that $95 million is chump change to that company and I bet they still knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FILES ANTITRUST SUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT FOR UNLAWFULLY MONOPOLIZING COMPUTER SOFTWARE MARKETS

https://www.justice.gov/archive/atr/public/press_releases/1998/1764.html

The Microsoft Monopoly: The Facts, the Law and the Remedy

http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/pops/pop7.4microsoftmonopolyfacts.html

Microsoft ordered to split into two companies

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jun/07/microsoft.business1

The Monopoly Formerly Known as Microsoft

https://wtfmitchel.medium.com/the-monopoly-formerly-known-as-microsoft-cb81c1163b1a

United States v. Microsoft Corp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

U.S. targets Microsoft

https://money.cnn.com/1998/05/18/technology/microsoft_suit/