So what you’re saying is you helped your billion dollar mega-corp use their monopoly position to destroy another monopoly and ensure chromium would be the next IE.
Which given the lawyers' concerns in this article is curious the 180 they did.
Shady browser advertising toolbar companies were using that extension to hijack and silently upgrade users into Chrome. Google bought that company as well.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20141217174028/https://www.moder...
Much like "You can switch off Google search any time you want, but people will keep using it as the default until there's another clear better option, and then most people will switch to that instead." If browsers are pretty interchangeable, why not use the best?
If anything, Microsoft was probably grateful that the YouTube announcement pushed so many users to upgrade to a newer version of MSIE.