Google Asks For Formal Role In Microsoft Anti-Trust Dispute
Jul 3, 2007 at 1:45pm ET by Danny Sullivan
New
Google filing presses for role in Microsoft case from the Seattle PI
covers how Google has now formally applied for a direct role to participate in
how a judge evaluates whether Microsoft's desktop search in the Vista operating
system violates an anti-trust agreement.
In the last installment of this saga, the judge
had ruled that she
was satisfied with changes that Microsoft proposes to make to how desktop search
operates and that if Google disagreed, it needed to work through the US Justice
Department and various state attorneys that are party to the Microsoft
anti-trust settlement.
G [...]
Filed in: Google: Desktop, Google: Legal, Legal: General, Microsoft: Business Issues, Toolbars & Add-Ons
Google Desktop Now Available For Linux
Jun 27, 2007 at 9:00pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Google Desktop is now available for those running Linux as their operating system. You'll find Google Desktop for Linux for download here..
Google Desktop for Linux was developed by Google's Beijing engineering team and runs on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5. The available languages include English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese.
[...]
Filed in: Google: Desktop
Google Wants DOJ To Continue Microsoft Antitrust Restrictions
Jun 26, 2007 at 9:09am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google seeks to extend Microsoft antitrust decree from Reuters reports that
Google has asked a federal judge to lengthen the period when Microsoft's
operating system is subject to antitrust reviews in order to ensure desktop
search players can remain competitive with Microsoft.
Last week, Microsoft
agreed to change various ways they handled the integration of desktop search
in Vista, in response to a complaint lodged by Google. However, Google remains
worried that the changes won't be fully in place before the wide-ranging
"consent decree" reached between Microsoft and the US go [...]
Filed in: Google: Desktop, Google: Legal, Legal: General, Microsoft: Business Issues, Toolbars & Add-Ons
Microsoft To Change Desktop Search In Vista Over Google Antitrust Claim
Jun 20, 2007 at 9:15am ET by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft to change Vista after Google complaint from Reuters reports that Microsoft has agreed to make changes to their Vista desktop search application to make it easier for people to change the default search provider.
Microsoft will make the changes in reaction to a Google antitrust complaint lodged with the US Justice Department. Google claimed that the manner in which desktop search was built in to Vista put competitors at an unfair disadvantage. Microsoft said they will change it so that it would make it easier for people to select their own desktop search default. In addition, Micros [...]
Filed in: Google: Desktop, Google: Legal, Legal: General, Microsoft: Business Issues, Toolbars & Add-Ons
Google Claims Antitrust Foul Over Microsoft’s Desktop Search In Vista
Jun 11, 2007 at 9:37am ET by Barry Schwartz
Both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have good stories out
about how Google is asking the US Justice Department to investigate whether the
desktop search tool built into Microsoft's Vista operating system violates a
2002 anti-trust action settlement that the US reached with Microsoft preventing
it from designing operating systems that limit consumer choice.
Google
Intensifies Microsoft Fight is the story from the Wall Street Journal that
covers how Google sent a 50 page white paper to the Justice Department and
various state attorneys in April covering its allegations against [...]
Filed in: Google: Desktop, Google: Legal, Legal: General, Microsoft: Business Issues, Toolbars & Add-Ons
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