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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."

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  1. Re:How Helpful. by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Troll

    More likely what they mean "Is we're making a promise, and we have no intension of actually doing it, but we'll keep you in our Redmond voicemail hell for a while and by some time to figure out some way to totally fuck you over."

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  2. Re:Sheep by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Convicted monopolist". You guys crack me up. That phrase has 0 legal meaning.