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Comment by johnloeber | Hacker News Reader

Making analogies between Microsoft in the 90s and X without mentioning the huge antitrust lawsuit[0] always seems dubious to me. The evolution of Microsoft as a business is not purely due to its product strategy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

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Actually Google currently is facing some serious anti-trust cases as well.

Maybe Google is better at hiding it or just being 'less evil', but MS was pretty open with their 'destroy everything that comes in our path'. I think it is important to mention that when mentioning the antitrust case.

Edit: I was against the antitrust case at the time even though I did not like nor used MS /products/ and did not approve of their practices. I believed they got that power because they managed to get enough people drink the coolaid and that's a part of what a business does; kudos to them basically. Still don't like most software they make, but as a company it seems a lot better now. Why restrict that? I have another opinion (I would be for the antitrust case now) now as I grow older.

MS wasn't aware they needed to hide it, Google's advantage..

There have been other antithrust cases which were about abuse of power (AT&T Co) so they should've been aware?

I don't really see capturing browser market by shoving it in your face at every opportunity and taking advantage of shady opt-out bundle installers as that much different than bundling with the OS.

Google is really the same as any other big company. They will do what they can get away with to further their goals.

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