Windows Defense on IE7 Search is No Defense

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"."

Comments

Here it goes again..

[DoctorDyna]

Heres just another example of everybody up in arms over some crap microsoft is doing. I swear, if the zealots stepped back for 2 seconds and looked at the bigger picture objectively, they might find out that none of these types of discussions are worth the bandwidth charges they cause from people reading them.

Get over it people. Go ahead and mod me crappy, I've said something that could be misconstrewed as pro-Microsoft.

Why do they need to defend themselves?

[Millenniumman]

Microsoft has done nothing wrong. Internet Explorer is their product and they can make it how they like. Do people expect them to make a competitor's search engine the default?