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Antitrust Consent Decrees as Moat Builders: The Microsoft Playbook, Rerun for the AI Era

Washington's antitrust hammer has a history of accidentally cementing the dominance it was meant to break — and Big Tech's current legal gauntlet may be writing the same ending.

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By Evan at Money Racket · May 14, 2026

The Policy Mechanism

In 2001, the DOJ handed Microsoft a consent decree that forced interoperability with third-party software and barred exclusionary contracts with PC makers. The market read it as a death sentence. What actually happened: the structural guardrails codified Windows' position in enterprise, gave Microsoft a compliance playbook that neutralized future regulatory risk, and freed management to pivot toward what became Azure, Teams, and a $3 trillion franchise. The decree didn't break the moat — it blueprinted it.

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