During that summer, Microsoft creates Internet Explorer as part of Windows 95. Bill Gates will then begin to shift Microsoft's focus towards the Internet (npr.org). In May 1998, the United States Department of Justice accused Microsoft of having adopted anti-competitive and exclusionary practices aimed at maintaining its monopoly on personal computer operating systems and extending this monopoly to Internet browsing software. People like the attorneys general of the Twenty state and the District of Columbia would file an action that was simply the same thing. In October, the Justice Department sued Microsoft for violating a 1994 consent decree by forcing computer makers to include its Internet browser as part of the Windows software installation (npr.org). In 1999, Gates would become more seen on television when the “TNT” television network aired a made-for-TV movie about the emergence of “Apple” and Microsoft titled “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” Also in 1999, at the end of a 30-month trial, a judge found Microsoft in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and ordered the dissolution of the company..
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