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Microsoft promises free terrible coffee every month you use Edge

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Re: Wrong data

"Despite the time and money the Department of Justice wasted going after Microsoft in the 1990s, Microsoft never was a monopoly for the simple reason that Microsoft had no ability to exclude would-be rivals in the operating systems market, the office suite market, or the browser market"

False. The US government did declare Microsoft to be a monopoly. Convicted. Not only a monopoly, but an abusive monopoly which ran smaller competitors out of business (see Netscape). MSFT made a back room deal to avoid break up.

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