antitrust

Some of the concessions they were forced to make in the EU go beyond mere antitrust into the realm of taxing their success under the guise of antitrust protection.

The federal antitrust commission intervened after banks filed a lawsuit to stop Sofort from using their websites.

For decades, Microsoft has been hard on their competitors and hardware suppliers, and they've had antitrust problems.

Especially when you've previously been in antitrust lawsuits over abusing your position as the OS developer to take over the browser market.

MS did not outright ban their competitor's software because they were always in the cross hairs of the justice department for antitrust.

(Maybe that was due to the antitrust settlement.) Now here they are back to their old ways.

Microsoft bailed them out to avoid further antitrust inquiries.

The passages of their TOS that forbid using such services are most likely void as they obstruct a free market of payment providers (as seen by the federal antitrust commission).

They do occasionally prosecute antitrust cases.

I still remember the whole Internet Explorer bundling antitrust debacle and, while it took about a decade, I believe this is a different Microsoft we're having now.

I can’t see the USA government turning a blind eye to such blatant antitrust activities, but after what they have let the banks get away with maybe it would work.

I associate claims that anti-GG activity are illegal, antitrust, fraud, collusion, &c with KotakuInAction, a perception colored by Popehat's mockery of those legal claims.

"The commission also alleges that Intel secretly redesigned key software, known as a compiler, that deliberately stunted the performance of competitors' CPU chips." The EU finally drops its antitrust suit against Microsoft, but the FTC seems to want to waste more time and money.