Chrome is the new IE.

The difference is that Microsoft wanted to stall the web, while Google wants to accelerate it faster so that nobody else can keep up.

The commonality is the de-facto monoculture being sold to web developers. "Works best in Internet Explorer" was the problem twenty years ago. Now we've got lazy web developers who bemoan the absence of Chrome on their customer's phones. Right now Apple is the last thing standing between them and slapping a "Works best in Chrome" banner everywhere and abandoning support for Safari.