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Microsoft was a monopoly because it had 97% of the desktop market. Their anticompetitive behavior is too long to list but include not being able to remove IE, they bundled Windows Media Player, wouldn't make office for competing products until the second coming of Steve Jobs, they tried to make their own version of Java, ...

This all sounds like the same stuff apple does with ios

The idea of "opening" iOS so that we can welcome a Google Chrome monopoly just doesn't sit right with me.

This.

> 25 years ago we said Microsoft was a monopoly just for including IE.

We said Microsoft was abusing their monopoly because they used criminal blackmail against hardware sellers, threatening to cease business with sellers if they tried to sell any computers with competing operating systems or without operating systems.