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Microsoft To Change Desktop Search After Google Complaint

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the we-didn't-mean-it-honest dept.

Raver32 writes to tell us that Microsoft will be making changes to their desktop search tool in Vista after a 49-page antitrust complaint was filed by Google. "Microsoft initially dismissed the allegations, saying regulators had reviewed the program before Vista launched. However, Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, said in an interview last week that the company was willing to make changes if necessary."

4 of 286 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I've always wanted to ask: were you dropped on your head as a child, or was it just rampant drug abuse that has turned you into a mental cripple?

  2. Re:Desktop Search? WTF? by Bassman59 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Desktop Search" is what you turn off to gain HDD access speed, because you actively organize your personal files (unlike other schmucks).

    EXACTLY.

    You deserve to lose all of your data if you stuff all of your files into My Documents. Or worse, C:\WP51\DOCS\

  3. Re:Wow! by MightyMartian · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Repeat this one hundred times for the class:

    "Apple is not a monopoly."

    The rules change when you pass through the realm of anti-trust law. Apple's market share is so low that it doesn't really matter whether it locks everyone out. Since it does not have the capacity to adversely effect the market, it's not an issue.

    --
    The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
  4. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Learn how to spell the word "you", you stupid shit.