[LINK] Microsoft is now the ‘adult in the room’ among big tech

[Kim Holburn]

On 2020/10/11 1:24 am, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> In 1998, Microsoft was the subject of Congressional antitrust inquiries and many wanted to break the company up. In the end, Bill Gates was able to avoid a breakup by promising to change his company’s ways.

If by that you mean, Microsoft was so embedded in the US government it couldn't be sanctioned, then yes.  If you mean it just wasn't 
able to leverage its monopoly on the desktop to do what Google did, then no. Microsoft tried to get into Google's territory with 
Windows phone and Bing, and is still trying by making Bing the default search engine on everything it can.  Adding massive telemetry 
into Windows 10 so it collects google amounts of personal data from desktops.  It has only really slowed slightly on licensing 
issues because it's trying to catch google, apple and facebook on network apps and because the desktop was sidelined by phones which 
are the platform to beat ATM.  It is still trying to make Office the default everywhere.

Kim