At the time, I thought that not breaking up Microsoft during the monopoly trial (a very remote possibility) was the worst thing that could have happened to Microsoft. As a large company, they lost a lot of the tech edge that they had in the 90's. Had they split into three groups something like: OS/ servers/dev tools, Office applications, and Internet services/Xbox(?), they would be a much more formidable competitor in the future.
Imagine how much would be different now, had there been baby-microsofts competing during the last ten years.
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At the time, I thought that not breaking up Microsoft during the monopoly trial (a very remote possibility) was the worst thing that could have happened to Microsoft. As a large company, they lost a lot of the tech edge that they had in the 90's. Had they split into three groups something like: OS/ servers/dev tools, Office applications, and Internet services/Xbox(?), they would be a much more formidable competitor in the future.
Imagine how much would be different now, had there been baby-microsofts competing during the last ten years.