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Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine
BabyDuckHat writes "Cnet's Dennis O'Reilly caught 'Windows Search Helper' trying to change his default Firefox search from Google to Bing. This isn't the first time the software company has been caught quietly changing user's preferences to benefit its own products."
Par for the course. Now that they're busted, I'm sure one of their unethical employees, or even better, one of those slimey shills they employ under the table, will come out and say "Oh, it was an accident."
Microsoft, to IT what human sewage is to clean water.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Yeah, but corporate businesspeople can pay hundreds of employees to work 8 hours a day, while free software only gets peoples' weekends and holidays. Sure empirically free software has worked out very well, but it's not as a priori obvious as you make it out to be.
Your quote is conveniently taken out of context, fanboy. Try reading the WHOLE article. But since slashdot was invaded by Microsoft shills and sock-puppets years ago, I know I'm wasting my breath.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Exactly, the search service is an indexing service. It has nothing to do with searching the web. Slashdot doesnt need proof, it needs its daily 3 minutes of hate.