The anti-trust thing was kind of ridiculous, though. Would you have preferred to have to get a floppy disk in order to install a web browser? How about Acer replacing IE with its own piece of shit browser in OEM builds? (hypothetical) Looking back, I don't think that was a good use of the Sherman antitrust act.
It wasn’t even really IE. Everyone forgets the bigger issue at play in that case: forcing OEMs to pay for a Windows license even on non-Windows devices. That’s something that anti trust laws are for. The IE thing was just another thing they could tack on as an “abuse”.
