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About Microsoft’s clashes in courts with other companies and goverments can be a book written and still we may add another chapter.

A Californian court ruled out that Microsoft’s Instant Search functionality embedded in Windows Vista is to be removed. Why? Well because it was not part of any previous versions of Microsoft’s OS’es and gives no choice to the consumer for another 3rd party similar tool, that’s “Google Desktop Search”.

Microsoft complied and it said it will remove this with the service pack due at the end of the year.

My opinion is that this is bullshit and most users know how and when to install additional tools if Microsoft’s offering is not to their liking. The strenght of Microsoft is not quite the “excelence” of their tools but the way they work with eachother. I don’t rule out the strenghts of Google Desktop Search but still it won’t be as seamleasly integrated in the OS and thus in the end won’t add that much benefit.

Just my two cents.

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