The government stopped doing antitrust enforcement in general. Big tech has lobbyists, so they especially don't get punished, but nobody really does anyways. They should have broken up MS into parallel and competing businesses when they could have. Now MS is less the bad guy, but the precedent that you just issue a restraining order and hope the market sorts it out is established.
The government stopped doing antitrust enforcement in general. Big tech has lobbyists, so they especially don't get punished, but nobody really does anyways. They should have broken up MS into parallel and competing businesses when they could have. Now MS is less the bad guy, but the precedent that you just issue a restraining order and hope the market sorts it out is established.