This forgotten investigation into Microsoft, 10 years before the antitrust trial, let it get away with tactics that sealed its tech dominance, according to a key player (MSFT)

With concern growing over the power of Google, Facebook, and the other tech industry behemoths, people have been looking back to the Microsoft antitrust trial for possible insights.
But an earlier investigation into the company may have a more important lesson, said Rick Warren-Boulton, an economist who served as an expert witness for the government in that trial.
That investigation, led by the Federal Trade Commission nearly a decade before the antitrust trial, looked into the tactics Microsoft