“I’m 99% sure you’re confusing what Opera complained about with the popular misconception of what the Clinton DoJ went after Microsoft for.”
That’s not how I remember it, but I will check on that.
Just to be clear:
The Clinton DoJ alleged that Microsoft was a monopoly which abused said monopoly on the operating system market to threaten OEMs that shipped computers with Netscape pre-loaded. In this particular instance, Microsoft was charging OEMs a higher price for Windows licenses if they shipped Netscape, and gave them a discount if they only shipped with Internet Explorer.
Opera alleged that the mere inclusion of Internet Explorer with Windows is anticompetitive and illegal, as opposed to Microsoft using its leverage in the operating system market to exclude competition in the web browser market.
These are separate and wildly different cases, and people generally misunderstand and misremember the Clinton DoJ’s case against Microsoft as being some kind of indictment of the inclusion of Internet Explorer with Windows. It was not.