What Google, Facebook And Apple Can Learn From Microsoft’s 1998 Antitrust case

In 1995, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates published a memo entitled “The Internet Tidal Wave.” Gates outlined seven areas where Microsoft could increase its focus on internet features, including a web browser. The next year Microsoft launched its Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft faced an antitrust lawsuit by the Department of Justice in 1998 during the height of the Browser Wars. Its Internet Explorer was quickly becoming the go-to web browser for the masses, but the U.S. government argued it stifled competition.

The new trustbusting


October 21, 2020 The New York Times, Wednesday Morning

Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin at Google headquarters in 2004.Ben Margot/Associated Press
When two Stanford University graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founded Google in 1998, the U.S. economy looked different than it does today.

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