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“There’s no doubt that the antitrust lawsuit was bad for Microsoft, and we would have been more focused on creating the phone operating system and so instead of using Android today you would be using Windows Mobile,” claimed Gates. “If it hadn't been for the antitrust case... we were so close, was just too distracted. I screwed that up because of the distraction.”

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“There’s no doubt that the antitrust lawsuit was bad for Microsoft, and we would have been more focused on creating the phone operating system and so instead of using Android today you would be using Windows Mobile,” claimed Gates. “If it hadn't been for the antitrust case... we were so close, was just too distracted. I screwed that up because of the distraction.”
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Ian Betteridge (ianbetteridge@writing.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 00:21:40 JST Ian Betteridge
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And here's the key point. Importantly, the DOJ didn't have to *legislate* to keep Microsoft out of mobile: the chilling effect of worrying about the antitrust implications slowed the company down enough to make space for others.

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