graeme_p - 8:51 am on Mar 23, 2012 (gmt 0)

Microsoft was accused of disadvantaging a small number of hardware manufacturers and several software producers. G is accused of disadvantaging millions of businesses around the world

Not really. The reason we have competition laws is to protect consumers. Those actions made the market less competitive, disadvantaging BILLIONS of consumers around the world.

However, nobody has even mentioned making Chrome OS offer alternative browsers or search engines, funny that

That is because Chrome OS does not have the market share Windows has. When it does it will face the same. Also, as Chrome OS is open source, is there anything stopping vendors substituting a different browser, or installing multiple browsers?