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Google Says Vista Search Changes Not Enough

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the meeting-demands dept.

akkarin writes "Following Google's complaint to Microsoft regarding Vista's 'desktop search,' Google claims that Vista's search has not changed enough: 'Google said yesterday that the remedies don't go far enough. Google chief legal officer David Drummond said in a statement, "We are pleased that as a result of Google's request that the consent decree be enforced, the Department of Justice and state attorneys general have required Microsoft to make changes to Vista."'"

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  1. huh by The+Living+Fractal · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I really like Google. I don't understand why they have to do this though.

    TLF

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    1. Re:huh by nlitement · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      To vanquish the evil of Microsoft.

  2. Re:Google is digging their own grave here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You are really dumb. Windows is a MONOPOLY. This is beyond dispute. What don't you get about that? The fact that it is a monopoly means that Microsoft needs to play fair. Otherwise, they could kill every single vendor out there by offering every feature for free, and then once the competitor closes shop, Microsoft would turn around and charge for it. You don't think that's the case? If not, you're a moron.

    What Microsoft is attempting to do is add features that interfere with how other applications work, namely their #1 rival for mindshare which is Google. Microsoft and Google do not really compete, at least not in each other's bread-and-butter. But Microsoft wants to have the mindshare amongst people that they are the king of the hill, and Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates are desperately worried that sooner or later Google will produce software/web os/something and will be competing. So, they want to snuff out anything Google does that is desktop related, make their software seem shitty so that the impression is "Well Google is great for the Web, but their software sucks."

    Their plan is obvious because they've done it before.

  3. Oh for the love of Christ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "%KO"V is what I'd like to say. Google can take a stick up it's own arse and the whole anti-trust crap can go to hell. Microsoft should be allowed to bundle whatever they want with THEIR OWN OS and google can seriously sod off. I am so goddamn tired of their bullying, MS is nothing compared to Google when it comes to monopolyabuse. I _want_ IE, WMP, Desktopsearch etc to be embeded and bundled with my OS and if I don't want it there I want to be the one to remove it, not the one to install it.

    This is all Google lobbyists licking some ass again, whoopti fucking doo. Google desktopsearch is a huge piece of crap like most of Vista is already though.