2 key players of the Microsoft antitrust trial 20 years ago explain why its lessons will be critical to regulating Google, Amazon, and Facebook (MSFT, AMZN, AAPL, FB, GOOGL)

The Microsoft antitrust trial of the 1990s has important lessons for government regulators as they decide what to do about companies that dominant the tech industry today, two central players in the Microsoft case said.
The Microsoft case shows how important it is to enforce antitrust laws, even if such an action doesn't lead to a breakup of the targeted company, said Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig and antitrust lawyer Alan Kusinitz.
The situation the tech industry was facing before the trial