These are accusations that the Justice Department leveled against a technology giant it accused of running an illegal monopoly.
But they aren’t from this week’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple — they’re from the case the department brought against Microsoft in 1998.
And federal prosecutors are explicitly connecting the Apple lawsuit to that earlier fight.
“They’re really presenting this case as a successor to that: Microsoft 2.0,” said Gus Hurwitz, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
And it isn’t clear whether the Justice Department will be able to achieve here what it claims to have done by suing Microsoft.
Persons:
Apple —, Department’s, Clinton, “ They’re, ”, Gus Hurwitz
Organizations:
Justice Department, Apple, Microsoft, Google, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School