Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Invoice Gates deposition

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When Microsoft backed a key movement filed two weeks in the past in Epic Video games’ antitrust lawsuit in opposition to Apple, it raised a couple of eyebrows.

Twenty years in the past, the US Justice Division, 18 states, and the District of Columbia sued Microsoft on allegations the Home windows working system represented a monopoly that the corporate was wielding to prop up its then fledgling Web Explorer browser, in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The swimsuit expressly claimed that Microsoft was utilizing Home windows to freeze out the Netscape browser and, extra tacitly, Solar Microsystems’ cross-platform Java platform as nicely.

The software program maker vehemently bristled on the allegations and claimed that the motion represented a authorities intrusion introduced on the behest of firms that couldn’t compete on the deserves. Microsoft warned that the motion would set a harmful precedent that would stifle innovation for years to return.