From then on, the commission's efforts to see full compliance with the ruling over market dominance became a bane to Ballmer, who would have preferred some sort of settlement over the issue as had been obtained with the United States Department of Justice in 2001.
Four wins in a row in the championship series, topped off with a showboating demolition of his rivals in the grand final in Australia - an unprecedented dominance from anyone, let alone a 21-year-old in his first full year on the senior circuit.