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Windows Defense on IE7 Search is No Defense

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-keep-spelling-defense-wrong dept.

Vicegrip writes "Stan Beer writes on why Microsoft's and recently Yahoo's supportive arguments for making Windows Live Search the default in IE7 are feeble: "In the case of Google, it pays hard cash to Mozilla and Dell to get the right to have its search engine placed as the default in the browsers.[... by contrast ...] Microsoft does not need to pay one cent to place its search engine in the lead position on its browser, which sits on the vast majority of PCs in the world"."

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  1. Solution by aallmighty · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're right, Microsoft should have to pay themself hard cash!

    1. Re:Solution by bhirsch · · Score: 4, Funny

      Shhh. Don't bring irrelevant things like financial return and opportunity cost into this. The really issue here is that M$ is teh sux0r!!!

  2. Easy Fix by Kainaw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows is an extremely insecure OS, right? IE is an extremely insecure browser, right? Windows users click on any 'download' and 'install' button they see, right? Why not just write a virus/trojan that replaces the search bar with Google? Then, in no time, it will propogate and everyone will be using Google.

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  3. So, start the bidding... by everphilski · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft should open up the bidding then to all search engines to make **their** search engine the default for IE7. And let MSN compete. If MSN wins the profits can be donated to charity or something. There, your non-competitive fears have been quelled.

  4. Google can afford it by lymond01 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google can afford the fees to have their search engine prominently placed on certain browsers. What they should be considering is taking the open source engine or Firefox and branding their own Google Browser. Not everyone's heard of Firefox or even Mozilla (go ahead, ask around your company), but I remember a pigmy from the outback approached me once, spear in hand, while I was dying from thirst, lost in the desert, and asked why I didn't just use Google Maps before I came to Australia?

  5. Re:Microsoft is not a monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How can Microsoft be a monopoly if there is Linux?

    And don't forget OS X. Oh wait, I see your point now.

    It only took those apple guys three whole decades to figure out Windows is a superior OS. Now, those new winmacs are selling like hotcakes baby. I wonder how many decades (or centuries perhaps) it will take linux occultists to finally come around...

  6. Re:Yahoo and Microsoft say what? by assassinator42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    All Dell users will have Google as the search engine for the bar anyway. Many users will probably have the search bar set to whatever spyware/Acrobat Reader/etc sets it to anyhow.

  7. Re:It's very normal by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I never anthropomorphize my computer. She hates it when I do that.

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