Google vs. Microsoft
Of course, you must have heard about the recent anti-trust complaint by Google on Microsoft Windows Vista’s search issues, and about the eventual victory of Google in that too. This surely makes things better for us.
First off, its resulted into a much earlier Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), in which Microsoft had promised to address Google’s worries. Google here isn’t a clear victor, cause to get rid of its issues with Windows Vista’s Desktop Search, its got to face the time till the SP1. But anyway, it’s made Microsoft speed up things, and thats good. Though I don’t expect them to complete it on time, cause they have a sort of affinity towards lawsuits and paying fines. The money has to go somewhere hasn’t it?
Second, this action is a good and a very quick reply to both Microsoft’s request of an anti-trust probe in the Google-DoubleClick deal worth 3.1 million and the as usual lame Steve Ballmer’s words against Google, which also appeared in this Desktop Search case.
And now what have we got? That’s right, dissatisfaction. Way to go Google! I just hope they make Microsoft fix the entire search up, so that the software world can be a more peaceful and easier place, to search in, of course.
Eeek, this post looks like a Wikipedia page.
Harsh J
21 Jun 07 at 11:03 pm
yeah wikiharsh & gooharsh Vs Microharsh ,j/k
fight of titans , dhishooom dhishoom
rahul
21 Jun 07 at 11:18 pm
I hate google more than MS, but still I use google apps
I’d be happy if google gets a raw deal here.
mehul
22 Jun 07 at 1:38 am
I don’t really like Google desktop search and I have not used Vista so I don’t know how good the Vista’s built in search is but I really like Beagle (Suse 10.2). Somebody should find a way to run linux applications semi-natively on Windows by providing a layer of abstraction - because computers are powerful enough now to handle the extra overhead I think. What I would really like to see is the ability to tag files and folders become a inbuilt feature of operating systems! Tagging is much better for files and folders imho.
Rohit
22 Jun 07 at 9:35 am
What Google wanted is Vista to allow a complete search replacement. Aka, every search-box must be Google’s if the user wished it so. Microsoft has just promised a few explorer windows for now, instead. Not all. But am sure if they unlock the entire thing, then we can install much better search software than the default and not have a hard time running it each time or in background to search.
Harsh J
22 Jun 07 at 9:39 am
i simply detest MS trying to prove it’s ’superiority’ in the software world. I think google should is already leading the fight with microsoft.
thegreateye
22 Jun 07 at 3:01 pm