The federal government took Microsoft to court for being a monopoly. Microsoft stated that the merging of its Microsoft Windows operating system and Internet Explorer (IE) was the result of innovation and competition, that the two were now the same product and were inextricably linked together, and that consumers were now getting all the benefits of IE for free. Those who opposed Microsoft's position countered that the browser was still a distinct and separate product that did not need to be tied to the operating system, since a separate version of IE was available for Apple's Mac OS.

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