Microsoft tied MSIE to Windows distribution, if you wanted to distribute Windows with your PCs you had to agree to Microsoft's terms. In some cases you had to

Microsoft tied MSIE to Windows distribution, if you wanted to distribute Windows with your PCs you had to agree to Microsoft's terms. In some cases you had to pay Microsoft for a Windows license regardless of whether or not you had installed Windows on the PC. I concede I could be wrong but I do not believe Google Chrome ships with Windows or OS X. Would Google be as big as it is today? I have no idea, but the reason Google is Google has less to do with Microsoft's antitrust case than with dozens of previous commercial search engines failing to compete with them. By the time the MSFT antitrust case was resolved there was no meaningful competition to Microsoft on PCs and Netscape was winding down into the Mozilla project.