and yet the response to anything by microsoft is reminders of EEE, while google gets praised for blatantly awful abuses of power.
Do you have some examples of that? The first things that come to mind are AMP and related announcements, which were not received particularly positively here on HN.
Cue followup 'Actually these are all extremely good + business-savvy decisions for big G since' posts.
> google gets praised
None of the things you list are things Google is praised for.
My days of google fan-boy-ism are long over :-/