In the Microsoft case, the effectiveness was still noticeable.<p>The concept of the Microsoft case: Make sure that Microsoft can not get a monopoly in the web.<p>How it was done: Install no browser by default, let people pick. People chose what they had heard of, often Firefox or Chrome.<p>Result: It led to an almost instantaneous drop in IE market share on new windows installs.<p>And it most definitely helped end IE’s monopoly over the market.<p>With Google, it will be far more problematic, and might even end up with Google getting broken up into several companies, or even banned from some markets, or even forced to operate like a governmental monopoly, and integrate competing products equally as they integrate their own.