

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson entered the decree on August 21, 1995, three days before the launch of Windows 95.

Later that spring, a three-judge federal appeals panel removed Sporkin and reassigned the consent decree. On FebruJudge Stanley Sporkin issued a 45-page opinion that the consent decree was not in the public interest. In a consent decree filed on July 15, 1994, Microsoft agreed to a deal under which, among other things, the company would not make the sale of its operating systems conditional on the purchase of any other Microsoft product.

Critics attest that it also used predatory tactics to price its competitors out of the market and that Microsoft erected technical barriers to make it appear that competing products did not work on its operating system.
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In the 1990s, Microsoft adopted exclusionary licensing under which PC manufacturers were required to pay for an MS-DOS license even when the system shipped with an alternative operating system.
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Government regulatory actions and court decisions may hinder our ability to provide the benefits of our software to consumers and businesses, thereby reducing the attractiveness of our products and the revenues that come from them. In its 2008 annual report, Microsoft stated:
