Was that the start of Left-establishment activism overrunning the grassroots technologist communities? If one believes in anti-trust, there was an actual an actual case that Microsoft was making anticompetitive deals with hardware assemblers to shut out OS competitors. But anyone giving credibility to the argument that Microsoft shouldn't bundle a web browser with Windows is a retard (or scam-artist), including the few that were proficient at quantitative trading or improving C compiler optimizations. I'm not aware of any prior activism relevant to hobbyist/retail computing being retarded.

To the original topic, people should be looking for what is hindering competition with the giant retail corporations. An hefty antitrust lawsuit wouldn't fix artificial govt. costs of small business, or low expertise consumers being allergic to due diligence.