Doesn’t think violate the Justice Department consent decree against Microsoft from way back in the day? Back in the early 00’s (I think), they were forcing users to use their browser.
Autocorrect kills.
> Didn't Microsoft attempt to bake their web browser into the operating system without exception once before, almost two decades ago? Wasn't there a massive lawsuit regarding monopolies that forced them to allow other web browsers to co-exist? Didn't Microsoft lose? Have they forgotten?
This move with regard to Edge and Mail is negligible compared to what they did with I.E. to kill Netscape in the mid-90's. No legal action will come of this one, because no other company is likely to be harmed, and few individuals will care.
Yes, MS got in deep trouble about the I.E. browser stuff, but this is not that, not by a long shot.
nice article here.
that consent decree has expired.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/long-antitrust-saga-ends-for-microsoft/
Interesting (to me ) side bar - I was testing with a bunch of hacks on an installer protocol called 98lite.
Developed by Shane Brooks.
As MS was telling the court it couldn’t “de integrate” IE from Windows, 98lite did just that an then some.
Using 98lite I ran a 486 DX100 with Win98 without IE and a lot of other MS stuff. The OS footprint was less than 38mb.
We had to modify the shell to make it back to Win95 ( which of course, broke EULA )
Those were wacky days...
GMTA, I read the article and thought the exact same thing. Don't think we're both wrong here.