And Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to help its applications division--the programmers who write software like Microsoft Word--by giving them preferred access to the complex Windowssourcecode.
The gamut of possible outcomes runs from a mild go-forth-and-sin-no-more to the truly Draconian stuff: forcing Microsoft to share its Windowssourcecode with its competitors or carving it up into separate, independent companies, the so-called Baby Bills (see chart).