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It's slightly different because Google has not had a court find that they abused their monopoly position to push their own browser and crush competition. I am

It's slightly different because Google has not had a court find that they abused their monopoly position to push their own browser and crush competition. I am not suggesting that this current action violates the terms of Microsoft's settlement, only that there's relevant historical context here. To be clear, I think both companies' whining is tacky and annoying.

ocdtrekkie 10y ago
Almost twenty years ago. And while Google hasn't yet been ruled against (outside of Russia), they're under investigation for "tying", the same anticompetitive practice Microsoft was found abusing, in almost every major first world nation. And while Google bundles it's browser, like Microsoft did, it also bundles almost twenty applications now, which in most cases cannot be removed by the user. So, yeah, twenty years ago, Microsoft did some bad things, but Google is doing much worse right now.
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ChuckMcM 10y ago
https://www.ft.com/content/3f290294-0627-11e6-9b51-0fb5e65703ce https://www.ft.com/content/3f290294-0627-11e6-9b51-0fb5e6570... I agree that Google has not had a court find them an abusive monopolist, but I would add "yet." As someone who watched the Microsoft case start out in the tech press, then move to the mainstream press, and then finally become indictments the similarity to the process with Google is pretty interesting. If you follow the dollars, you can see how much money Google is paying for search traffic which squeezes out organic growth of competitors and were it not for Microsoft's warchest of cash probably would have killed off Bing before it became operationally profitable. And they use that search engine dominance to push the browser of their design which favors their products? That feels very much like Microsoft using their dominance in the OS space to push their browser which favored their products and technologies.

ocdtrekkie 10y ago

Almost twenty years ago. And while Google hasn't yet been ruled against (outside of Russia), they're under investigation for "tying", the same anticompetitive practice Microsoft was found abusing, in almost every major first world nation. And while Google bundles it's browser, like Microsoft did, it also bundles almost twenty applications now, which in most cases cannot be removed by the user. So, yeah, twenty years ago, Microsoft did some bad things, but Google is doing much worse right now.

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ChuckMcM 10y ago

https://www.ft.com/content/3f290294-0627-11e6-9b51-0fb5e65703ce https://www.ft.com/content/3f290294-0627-11e6-9b51-0fb5e6570... I agree that Google has not had a court find them an abusive monopolist, but I would add "yet." As someone who watched the Microsoft case start out in the tech press, then move to the mainstream press, and then finally become indictments the similarity to the process with Google is pretty interesting. If you follow the dollars, you can see how much money Google is paying for search traffic which squeezes out organic growth of competitors and were it not for Microsoft's warchest of cash probably would have killed off Bing before it became operationally profitable. And they use that search engine dominance to push the browser of their design which favors their products? That feels very much like Microsoft using their dominance in the OS space to push their browser which favored their products and technologies.