Google has decided to wrestle with Microsoft, and if you haven’t been following the news lately, you have really missed a lot.
In April, Google filed a complaint against Microsoft, because its new operating system, Microsoft Vista, doesn’t allow other programs to easily interact with its indexing and searching system. Google claims that this is against the anti-trust agreement.
Wait… That happened in April, so why is it important now? Well, it just came back that Google is going to have to prove that Microsoft did this maliciously if they want to win. This isn’t very easy, because how can they prove that? Google claims that it is more difficult to use Google to search with Microsoft Vista and if you want to do it, your computer will be a lot slower because it will have to run both programs simultaneously. Microsoft counters that it is still possible and that Microsoft is heading away from a browser based operating system (which is what Google uses), and aren’t responsible.
That’s not what’s interesting though, here is the low down: Google only filed the complaint against Microsoft after Microsoft publicly complained about Google buying Double Click Inc., an online advertising service for over 3 billion dollars. Microsoft says that the deal will give too much power to Google.
Is it just pettiness and retaliation, or does Google (or Microsoft) actually have a case? Should companies like Microsoft be forced to make their programs work with Google (or any other program for that matter), or should these programs be updated to work with the most popular operating systems? Whatever your opinion is, you can be sure that this isn’t going to be the last in the Microsoft versus Google fight of the century.
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