Judge Jackson found Microsoft guilty of violating U.S. antitrust laws. Microsoft had “maintained its monopoly power by anticompetitive means and attempted to monopolize the Web browser market.”13 The suggested remedy: Microsoft should be broken up into two separate companies: one that developed and sold operating systems, and another that developed and sold applications like web browsers. Of course, it never ended up that way. The case was appealed: the original verdict was rejected; and by the time the new Bush administration took office in 2001, there was little appetite for continuing what
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