No Microsoft Desktop Search for New Windows
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Microsoft Won't Bundle Desktop Search with Windows
Microsoft Won't Bundle Desktop Search with Windows
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Looks like M$ have been forced to rethink thier integration strategies for Windows as a result of recent antitrust rulings:
Looks like M$ have been forced to rethink thier integration strategies for Windows as a result of recent antitrust rulings:
Speaking on a panel on search technology at the Harvard Business School's Cyberposium, Mark Kroese, general manager of information services and merchant platform product marketing for MSN, said the federal antitrust battle Microsoft waged with the government has made the company think twice about what technologies it can add to the operating system.
There are some search engines out there right now breathing a little sigh of releif no doubt though they mention nothing of integrating a toolbar for IE for their MSN Search stuff...
- Y! MyWeb
hmm
I imagine that having windows automatic updates on by default, and suggesting it as an 'optional' component would be one way around an anti-trust issue.
Though I do think perhaps it is permissable that once you've purchased a computer, installed the os, and put a few files and emails on it, you should be able to search it without having to - haha - search for a search widget; the desktop search is after all, just a natural, slightly beefier extension of the traditional file search/finder.
Spin
Hah! More likely they're so far behind schedule on general Longhorn promises. :)