Decades later, the Microsoft antitrust case casts a shadow over the Google trial

In 2001, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates comments at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., on the U.S. Court of Appeals decision to overturn a lower court’s ruling that the software giant be broken up. Tim Matsui/Getty Images

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A legendary legal case looms large over the ongoing, landmark antitrust case involving Google and the U.S. government.

A federal judge has ruled that the tech giant operated as a monopoly because it illegally stifled competition in the search engine market. For the next few weeks, the judge is hearing arguments from the Justice Department and Google to decide

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