The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that Microsoft violated antitrust laws. However, the Clinton Administration that prosecuted the case was out of office with the incoming Bush Administration less willing to break up Microsoft. The US Department of Justice dropped the case and accepted a settlement where Microsoft would share its IE application programming interface, making it easier for software designers to use and integrate IE, but not changing the fact that IE (now, Edge) cannot be uninstalled.