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Microsoft May Be Investigated By Attorneys General
Null Nihils writes "Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has announced that a group of state attorneys general will decide later this week whether to pursue legal action against Microsoft over allegations of anticompetitive conduct that were brought on by Google. From the article: 'Google has complained that Microsoft's new operating system puts it, and other rivals, at a disadvantage. Google said that Vista makes it harder for consumers to use non-Microsoft versions of a desktop search function, which enables users to search the contents of their hard drives. A group of state attorneys general including Connecticut and California is now determining how to react to the claims made by Google.'"
Google said that Vista makes it harder for consumers to use non-Microsoft versions of a desktop search function, which enables users to search the contents of their hard drives So Vista is making it hard for others to supplant Vista's OWN installed file explorer to search its OWN hard drive. Everything I learned I learned in kindergarten... If a kid didn't play fair with you, did you run and bitch to your parents every minute of the day, or did you eventually learn not to play with the kid. Let's be realistic here, and I'm far from a Windows zealot (I used Open|Dragon|FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris mainly), It's MS' own system. They wrote it to their specifications. If they wrote it in such fashion for themselves, why complain about it. These laws, complaints are so out of hand everytime I see a new one I envision two billionaire brats racing Enzo Ferarris down a highway... Then both calling the same Ferrari dealer crying "I need it faster..." Onto re-racing and re-moaning "I need it faster". Software makers need to grow up.
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This is a good point. Google should lead the way by allowing third parties to replace Google's advertisements via a simple browser setting. So if someone thinks Microsoft's ads are better, Google should provide a simple, stable, robust mechanism for MS to easily replace all adwords placed advertisements for a particular user.
Until then, boo hoo.