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I just read this article about how Microsoft is having to provide links to Google desktop search in their Start menu in Vista. This is to stop them from getting sued with yet another anti-trust action suit. The article claims that the built-in Microsoft desktop search is causing problems with third-party destkop search tools simply by "remaining functional". GASP! TWO tools to index the HDD? How absolutely horrible!
I don't quite understand this... I am in this instance, pulling for Microsoft since a desktop search is just an OS feature and not an application like IE. One can hardly "blame" Microsoft for wishing to add features to their new OS, otherwise, why release a new version at all!? Is Google going to set its sights on Apple Spotlight next? Here tonight, we have, ah, apple and orange. We all different, but in the end, we all fruit. |
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Maybe, but Spotlight has been around for a while, might be hard for them to go after it now, two years after it has been released.
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Google's CEO is an Apple board member. To sue them over just about anything could result in a conflict-of-interest issue with Apple and cause lots of other problems.
Also, Apple's Spotlight does not cause Google's search thing to flake out, at least that I know of. - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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Which way is up?
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Probably not. It would appear that whatever Microsoft did was intentional. Either that or it's just another Vista "oops, I farted again!"
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Microsoft has a looooong history of intentionally crippling competing tools.
QT is a classic case. At one point in the 90s, Microsoft released a patch which broke QT in order to force nudge users to use WMP, despite the fact that QT had superior codecs and quality at the time. Microsoft has also been the subject of investigations for intentionally disadvantaging competing developers by withholding code hooks (from Netscape/Sun/Mozilla) despite a contract to share them. Could it be... a pattern? All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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