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Microsoft To Change Desktop Search After Google Complaint
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."
Prolly = I'm 15-years-old
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."
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
"Convicted monopolist". You guys crack me up. That phrase has 0 legal meaning.
Search in XP sucks.
GDS completely kicks ass. If anything, it's actually better than the Spotlight functionality in OS X.
Now that GDS is available, MS have upped their game and built it into Vista, nice and deep. Now, trying to use GDS on Vista will suck, and will confuse users since the Vista search window will always pop-up instead of the GDS window. Game set and match to MS.
If MS address this in a future service pack, you can just bet it will be a command-line config or a registry setting that will obey the letter of the law, but be utterly useless in addressing the real complaint.
Does that sound better?
Wait, yuore telling me the Mozilla foundation does not get money (72 million) from google to make it the default search AND I'm paid by MS because I mentioned this fact? Are you just stupid or crazy and stupid?
I think you might be paid by M$ because you sound like they do. Anyone who could doubt the supremacy of Google as a search engine is insane. Also, your bad manners and basic misunderstanding of free software can only come from Redmond.
You happen to be right about Google giving money to Mozilla, though I can't vouch for the amount because the ZDNet (Wintel Rag) contradicts you.
Still, this does not matter because Firefox is free software as is Konqueror. Every distribution's choice of Google and ultimately every user's choice is indeed a mater of merit. If there's not an actual setting, anyone of those distributions could recompile the browser to include whatever search engine they want. The idea that teh Evil Google is buying influence in the free software world does not hold water like it would in the non free world where people don't really have software control or choices.
You can sit here and rain all day but it won't do you any good. You can call me stupid and crazy. You can say Google is evil and sucks. None of that will give M$ what it needs: product and sales. The end of the M$ gravy train is here.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.