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Microsoft to Allow Competitive Search
Aviran Mordo writes to tell us Reuters is reporting that Microsoft is announcing a voluntary policy to help guide the development of Windows in the future. The policy, which Microsoft senior vice president Brad Smith said was 'committed to creating a transparent system that allows open competition,' will start by allowing other search engines like Google to be set by default.
Just to follow up on my own post (though it's bad form to replay to one's self lol), you can see in Microsoft's official statement:
Windows Principles: Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition that they cite the USDOJ and the provisions of the US antitrust settlement again and again; never do they cite the European Commision's Kafka-esque kangaroo court.
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If you write anything other than a "softball" you'll pay for it in karma.
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