This doesn't look like the 2001 brouhaha over "MS using Windows to peddle IE", nope, nooosir, not at all, honest.

Google is free - ads are expected. Microsoft is a paid product. Completely different situations.

I disagree that it's completely different situations. I have not seen anywhere in the legal structure that allows such moves if advertisements are enabled. It is still a company abusing their monopoly situation to influence another market.

In fact Google did it worse by blocking browsers purely by user-agent to key google services like maps to block the entry or Fire devices or windows phone devices.

Both cases aren't acceptible and both should be punished imho.

It is not, because they are not a monopoly.

Google Search is more of a monopoly than Microsoft Windows is last I checked.

Totally agree.

What does Google have to do with any of this?

People are complaining about Microsoft pushing Edge on Windows. Google pushes Chrome on google.com all the time. Frequently with some negative comment about your current browser. They may be less negative now than what I remember, haven't looked at one in forever.

I'm sure Google is shady in this, and many other ways, too, but I really don't see how it's important in this discussion. If Google is doing the same thing then I hope they choke on their Bacardi and Coke, too, but the news is that Microsoft is also doing it now.

I'm not sure what the adequate reaction here would have been. Should I have added a "P.S. oh yeah by the way Google is also doing this, don't forget to hate on them, too?" line in my original reply, for completeness?

This is not news, if people here are collectively OK with such behavior if it is done by a company they haven’t been trained to hate.

They push chrome on their search home page. Same thing really.

>"Still using Edge? Why not just get the original -- Google Chrome is here'

Is something Google would totally do. They've been pushing Chrome with the search home page for years.