“That means nothing. Everybody hated MS, look at the end result of that monopoly action: not a damn thing.”
One huge thing resulted from the MS anti-trust actions — Apple Computer still exists. When Apple was nearly kaput, MS kicked in enough money to keep them going — mainly, as a way of ensuring that they (MS) had enough competition to keep government off their backs.
Not really. Apple didn’t have enough market share to matter, investing in Apple was really more thumbing their nose at the government “we’re so big we can give money to the competition and you really can’t control us”. The end result of MS monopoly kerfuffle really shows you how helpless the government is in all this. Basically all MS had to do was end the per-processor license model, which was questionable at best, and make it so users could uninstall IE. And that last part was mostly because of European regulations. And Netscape still died. And IE is still on most computers, even though MS doesn’t even want it there anymore.