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There was a successful antitrust case against microsoft because of the way they abused their OS to get browser share with IE. I believe that the case was mostly because MS purposefully raised the switching cost by adding non standard features to their browser.



A bigger part was OEM licensing restrictions that prevented other browsers from being pre-installed.




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