Google complains about Microsoft’s Vista
I don’t want to say I “stumbled” onto this as I did not find this article through StumbleUpon, so I’ll simply say that I discovered this interesting article about Google complaining that Microsoft Vista, the latest version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, impairs the performance of “desktop search” programs that find data stored on a computer’s hard drive.
Google is trying to convince the US federal and state authorities that Microsoft Corp.’s Vista operating system is stifling competition as the high-tech heavyweights wrestle for the allegiance of personal computer users.
The Vista operating system, which became widely available in January, includes a desktop search function that competes with a free program Google introduced in 2004. Several other companies also offer desktop search applications.
Besides bogging down competing programs, Google alleged Microsoft had made it too complicated to turn off the desktop search feature built into Vista.
With its allegations, Google hopes to show that Microsoft isn’t complying with a 2002 settlement of an antitrust case that concluded the world’s largest software maker had leveraged the Windows operating system to throttle competition.
There’s more mud slinging in the rest of the article which you can read on breitbart.com
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- June 13th, 2007
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