Why the practice was anti-competitive in nature

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The Justice Department's anti-trust suit brought against Microsoft did not result in the software firm being required to unbundle its Internet Explorer browser from its Windows operating system. How might the fact that the Explorer browser was being made available for free thwart the government's charge that this practice was anti-competitive in nature?

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