“As U.S. et al. v. Google goes to trial, the echoes of the landmark federal suit against Microsoft, a quarter-century ago, are unmistakable.”
– Tech journalist
Steve Lohr, reminiscing the last major American
antitrust trial (1998). Once again “a tech giant is accused of using its overwhelming market power to unfairly cut competitors off from potential customers,” Lohr writes, noting Google is not
quite as audacious though (a Microsoft exec famously planned to “cut off Netscape’s air supply”).
