Full FeedGoogle is seeking help from DOJ to harmstring Microsoft
What do you do if you can’t overcome your competitor in business world? Seek help from the court and Google did just that.
Less than a week after antitrust regulators agreed to force Microsoft to address Google’s complaint about Vista’s built-in desktop search, the search giant is asking the federal court for more.
Years ago, Microsoft had settled several federal and state antitrust cases against the company with an oversight that is supposed to expire on November 12, 2007. Gogle now is asking the court to extend the oversight which will be to Google’s advantage, if accepted by the court.
What is at stake is definitely worth a lot of money to both Microsoft and Google and it all revolves around the choice Microsoft is giving to the users of its Vista operating system to install alternative search engine. Google is fighting for a fair chance to let the users decide to use Google search engine instead of Microsoft’s own search results.
Google alleged that Microsoft has a history of aggressively minimizing the impact of court-ordered relief and that the changes it made to accommodate alternative desktop search tools are vague and need clarification. In other words, the search king is not convinced that Microsoft is doing all it can to give consumers greater access to alternative desktop search providers.
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what’s not been mentioned in all of this google bellyaching about microsoft is that the search mechanism in vista is really GOOD and microsoft now I believe has googles attention regarding search.
on June 28, 2007 at 01:25 PM - LINKI’m sorry, but your opening sentence was so slanted that the page slid off my computer and I couldn’t read it.
MS has a long and shameful history of illegal monopolistic practices and corporate sabotage, and this was just another case. The only recourse for ANY company is through the courts, and since MS is already under court supervision for these practices, it makes sense for Google to ask for relief.
Whether it’s this latest attempt to cripple competitors search products, the “magical” inability to run AOL on Win95 (shortly after the launch of MSN), or using Access to rewrite common dlls that crashed WordPerfect for Windows (which violated Microsoft’s own licensing agreements), Gates & Co. have a track record of using Windows as a trojan horse to attack successful competitors.
There’s a real possibility they could face charges for planting viruses if it be shown they did it will malice and intent.
THAT’s why companies take MS to court.
on June 29, 2007 at 05:02 AM - LINK