The Microsoft Corporation came under serious scrutiny from the US Government in 1990, and was sued by the United States for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in early 1994. After a series of accusation and rebuttals, Microsoft entered into a consent agreement with the United States in 1995 that required it to offer a version of its Windows 95 operating system without its Internet Explorer browser. The consent decree also prohibited Microsoft from requiring Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to license any other product as a condition of their Windows licenses and contained a few other restrictions, which Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, termed “nothing”. Only one manufacturer, Packard Bell, licensed this browser-less version,
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