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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates: The only thing that we know for sure that would be bad for consumers is anything that blocked us from being able to innovate Windows or anything that made it so that when people buy Windows they don't know what is in it. Beyond those two principles, we...
TIME: What about breaking up Microsoft so Windows is made by a separate company?
Gates: I can't go down the path of saying what the settlement would be. All I'd say is that there are those key principles that I just mentioned.
TIME: Yes, but that's what the court found: you're a monopoly.
Gates: The case involves one competitor, Netscape, that got the government to act on its behalf. The irony is that Netscape was bought for $10 billion by the dominant online provider [AOL]. Netscape shareholders did super well, consumers did super well, and what we did with Windows is what we...