Kasz216 said:
The government has already challenged them many times. So yes. Yes they would.
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Um, not successfully and not to any lasting effect. The US got them for various antitrust offences and ordered the company split apart but the order was dropped and MS never had to change their business practices.
The EU got them for illegal bundling of Windows Media Player, and they paid a fine which was tiny in comparison to the scope of their business. However, apart from releasing a non-WMP version of Vista through very limited channels at the same price as regular Vista (so that no one would buy it), their practices again did not change and anticompetitive bundling of WMP and IE continue de facto.
Their OEM deals, which in my opinion are the worst offence, were never investigated.
Their use of very-slightly-incompatible formats like MS Java and IE's rendering engine up until IE8 in order to lock out compatible programs were never investigated.
Their baseless patent threats against Linux companies which bullied many into damaging cross-license deals were never investigated.
Their deals with schools and government bodies to provide Windows and Office without a fair bidding process or a cost review first were never investigated.
Their illegal actions with regards to the "standardisation" of OOXML were never investigated. These included bribing officials who voted, blocking OOXML objections by interfering with the process, causing national bodies to go against the advice of their own technical committees were never investigated.
Their "Vista Capable" program that stated that certain Intel integrated graphics chips were sufficient to run Vista when they weren't, with internal e-mail evidence and whistleblower testimony confirming it, was brought to court and then dropped for no adequate reason.
I could go on...











