They killed Netscape and had to put in a toggle with the option of other browsers like 10 years later. They paid next to nothing in fines and legal battles, basically putting a stranglehold on the internet itself that took another 10 to kinda of undo.
A monopoly trying to lock in browsers isn’t going to last in the EU.
Or even the US. Microsoft lost that one in the late 90s.
They killed Netscape and had to put in a toggle with the option of other browsers like 10 years later. They paid next to nothing in fines and legal battles, basically putting a stranglehold on the internet itself that took another 10 to kinda of undo.
Not sure if that’s a “loss.”
Wrong decade. We’re talking about having internet explorer pre installed on windows 95 and 98. It was a really big antitrust thing.
microsoft is pulling all their dirty tricks from the 90s unchecked rn.
Ehh maybe, widevine exists for drm already. They will just claim its an extension of that.