I'm not sure what it is that you think Microsoft did with IE but Google is doing pretty much the same, in the sense that their app ecosystem is all-or-nothing.

I'm not sure what it is that you think Microsoft did with IE but Google is doing pretty much the same, in the sense that their app ecosystem is all-or-nothing. And even worse in the sense that it's tied to the cloud account - back then, you didn't need a Microsoft account to use Windows.