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Old 10-08-2014, 06:17 AM   #225
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And, of course, in two out of three of the cases you mention, the case was eventually dismissed (IBM and Microsoft). AT&T was a regulated monopoly, a rather unusual case.
Going from memory, they all entered into consent agreements: The Bell System broke up into the baby bells; Microsoft has various editions of Windows, with and without Internet Explorer and Media Player, and doesn't default search to Bing; and I don't remember what IBM agreed to, but it agreed to something because Bill Gates was afraid that Microsoft would become as cautious as IBM after running afoul of the monopoly laws.
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