Microsoft: Ignore Google in Vista antitrust case
Which company is more evil than the other? Sure Google is a great search engine but they aren’t as nice as they used to be, it’s like watching The Republic turn into The Empire. At any rate, Microsoft is asking a federal judge not to allow Google to be part of the 2002 antitrust case. If allowed, Google would be the 20th plaintiff.
Google says the changes Microsoft is planning to apply to Vista do not go far enough. First, all Google wanted was the default desktop search bar changed to allow third party tools. Now it wants all the Explorer search boxes to allow for third party tools as well.
Microsoft is attempting to make it look like it is bending over backwards to meet Google’s demands and that Google is changing the rules of the game which makes Google come out looking dirty.
In an attempt to deal with the whole matter, Microsoft released a memo stating, “Google has nothing new to offer the Court, except for the veiled request that this Court go behind the enforcement decision of the plaintiffs and make Google the ‘20th Plaintiff.â€
It is true that the default search in Vista is not easy to change but does it really need to be. In my opinion, it does not. Vista’s desktop search tool is fast, effective and standardized across the operating system.
If the Google desktop were as simple as a desktop search then maybe it would be possible for me to see a valid argument. The Google desktop, which started off as a simple desktop search expanded to include Widgets, a clock, calendar, scheduler, note pad and who knows what else. I think it’s mostly useless flotsam; Google needs to go back to its routes.
All a desktop search needs to do is search the desktop but Google goes beyond that. From where I site, these are two different applications and are not really competing with one another.
In order to appease Google, Microsoft will be releasing the changes requested in the original complaint with a Beta of Vista SP1 by November.
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Well in my opinion your opinion says that is ok for MS to not play nice with other software which is the reason why they went to court in the first place. So stop being a vista/MS fan here and give us a non biased opinion please. Regardless if it works fast,well or what ever you want to say about it.