Microsoft Holding 'Screw Google' Meetings In DC

Runaway1956 writes "Microsoft's chief Washington lobbyist has been convening regular meetings, attended by the company's outside consultants, that have become known by some beltway insiders as 'screw Google' meetings, DailyFinance has learned. The meetings are part of an ongoing campaign by Microsoft, other Google opponents, and hired third parties to discredit the Web search leader, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. 'Microsoft is at the center of a group of companies who see Google as a threat to them in some combination of business and policy,' said a source who requested anonymity to avoid retribution. 'The effort is designed to make Google look like the big high-tech bad guy here.'"

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Actually, I'm kinda getting nostalgic ;)

[Moraelin]

Actually, you know, I'm kinda getting nostalgic. In ye goode olde days, even just a "Microsoft exists" would generate a flurry of pure hate, and let's not even get into news of such obviously evil behaviour as offering a free CLI version of their compiler. Now as of the time I've hit "Reply To This" were only 5 replies, and mostly moderate stuff. It hardly looks like the proper "screw Microsoft and the horse they rode in on" parties we used to hold :P

Re:Actually, I'm kinda getting nostalgic ;)

[Derek Pomery]

He's probably referring to:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469439

There was a simple workaround (LD_PRELOAD) but it has been since fixed.

Re:Using google as default in ie8

[wjsteele]

What? Are you joking? I'm not sure how much more obvious they can make it. There are a lot of things to complain about, but changing the default provider certainly isn't one of them.

Here are the simple steps to add a new provider:

1.) Click the dropdown in the search box.
2.) Click the "Find more providers" link.
3.) Click "Add to Internet Explorer" for the Google Provider.
4.) Check "Make this my default provider" option.
5.) Click Add. Done.

Also, If you just want to change Google to the default AND remove Bing, it's just as easy...

1.) Click the dropdown in the search box.
2.) Click the "Manage Search Providers" link.
3.) Select the "Google" provider.
4.) Click the "Set as default" button.
5.) Click on the "Bing" provider.
6.) Click the "Remove" button.
7.) Click "Done"

Really, these steps are so obvious that I almost didn't respond because I thought you were joking.

Bill