In 1993, the U.S. Department of Justice received complaints from other software manufacturers and began to investigate Microsoft's market monopoly issue.

In the United States, a place where capitalism is highly free and prosperous, monopoly is definitely an unforgivable big problem, and once it comes to monopoly, no matter who it is, it will become the target of public criticism. The most famous anti-monopoly investigation should be Standard Oil, John Rockefeller is amazing, this is a real super boss, the founder of the Rockefeller family, but even he has not escaped the anti-monopoly knife.

Standard Oil, the most powerful oil trust in human history, controls nearly 90% of the oil refining industry in the United States, and it is with Standard Oil that the Rockefeller family has become one of the two major consortium giants that can stand side by side with the Morgan family.

Awesome, indeed awesome.

Eventually, under the crackdown of the Sherman Antitrust Act, the U.S. government split Standard Oil into 37 regional oil companies.

All of a sudden, the huge Standard Oil was dismantled alive, completely ruining the calf, which can be regarded as ruining Old John's life's hard work. It is said that after this decision was made, John Sr. almost vomited blood, but the final outcome was somewhat dramatic, because although Standard Oil was split, the Rockefeller family made more money because of it.

Of course, Microsoft is certainly not comparable to Standard Oil, although Microsoft has monopolized more than 90% of the operating system software market, but this monopoly that relies on technology and user self-choice makes it a bit difficult for the US government to start.

But in any case, the antitrust investigation is like a dark cloud hanging over Microsoft's head, and it can't get rid of it. Moreover, it is precisely because of this antitrust investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice that Microsoft has been greatly dragged down in the securities market, otherwise, Microsoft's market value is definitely more than $160 billion.

If there is no antitrust investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice,

Microsoft's market capitalization is now at least $200 billion, and its peak market value will definitely not stay at the level of just $600 billion as in his previous life. If the antitrust investigation of the US Department of Justice can be resolved, Microsoft's peak market capitalization will definitely not be less than $800 billion, if not at the trillion-dollar level.

As for Microsoft, if it wants to take advantage of this Internet bubble tide and directly jump to the historical threshold of 1,000 billion, then it has to solve the problem of piracy in the mainland.

In other words, Su Chenyu is very awesome, but he definitely doesn't have the ability to solve the problem of pirated copycats in China, which has not been solved even in later generations, he is really powerless.

However, although this problem has not been solved, Su Chenyu can indeed help Microsoft solve the problem of anti-monopoly investigation.

In fact, an important reason for the intensification of Microsoft's anti-monopoly investigation in the previous life was the "browser war", in order to defeat Netscape and win this "browser war", Microsoft used a subdiscriminate method, and it was this method that made Microsoft completely passive.

That is, the Indos operating system is bundled with the Internet Explorer, which is completely a "rogue" behavior.

However, now this biggest "handle" has been eliminated in the cradle by Su Chenyu, after Microsoft acquired Netscape, officially unified the browser rivers and lakes, so there is no need to use the "hooligan" bundle method to win the browser industry.

Therefore, in this way, it will be much easier for Su Chenyu to deal with the US government and the Ministry of Justice, after all, it is really difficult to judge Microsoft's "genius monopoly" now. Moreover, the U.S. Department of Justice is also quite embarrassed, spending a huge amount of $7 million on Microsoft's antitrust investigation every year, you know, the Department of Justice only spends a total of $13 million on antitrust investigations every year.

After exchanging views with Bill Gates, Su Chenyu officially set out to solve this problem, as for how to solve it, hehe, then don't worry about the chickens not peeing, each has its own way.

Anyway, in a federal district court's review of Microsoft's monopoly case not long after, the U.S. Department of Justice was more rhetorical

Yu was much softer before, which made Bill Gates see the huge power behind Su Chenyu, the major shareholder.

As the representative of Tianchen Fund on the board of directors of Microsoft, Su Chenyu has always been a "transparent person" at Microsoft, and he does not attend the board of directors several times a year, and his legal representative usually attends on his behalf. However, not long ago, Su Chenyu, a director of Microsoft, actually became the chairman of Apple, which really made Bill Gates and others confused. However, it is relieved to think about it, Tianchen Fund is also a major shareholder of Apple after all, and it is reasonable for Su Chenyu to be the chairman.

However, this time, Su Chenyu, a "transparent person", did show his huge energy to Bill Gates and others, or the huge power of Tianchen Fund and the consortium behind him.

You know, the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust investigation has plagued Microsoft and Bill Gates for too long, and he didn't try to get the U.S. Department of Justice in the past, but the results were not ideal.

This time, Su Chenyu's shot made Bill Gates see hope, it seems that the 0.5% stake paid by Microsoft is definitely not a loss, as long as the anti-monopoly investigation can be handled, everything is easy to say.

Soon, a piece of news that made Bill Gates and Microsoft cheer was broken, and after such a long and fruitless antitrust investigation of Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice decided to drop the investigation against Microsoft.

This news is simply a big positive, stimulated by this news, Microsoft's stock price soared again, the market value directly broke through the $200 billion mark, and directly stood on the high of $220 billion and soared by nearly 40%.

There is no way, the withdrawal of the antitrust investigation of Microsoft by the U.S. Department of Justice is really too good for Microsoft, which is equivalent to removing a reins that have been shackling Microsoft, and it is almost a sure thing to develop again.

While everyone was still talking about the news, no one knew that a foundation controlled by the U.S. Department of Justice had received a $30 million donation from an offshore fund, and that the Collinton Foundation, which had been established after Collinton's departure, had also received a donation of nearly $30 million!