Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft's Vista-Live Strategy Already Impacting Google
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| But the question is, will this strategy be enough for Microsoft to
>| beat Google and Yahoo in the web race? Or will the average Joe and
>| Jane User, with their new Vista PC, make the extra effort to
>| change their default search engine back to Google again?
> `----
>
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_vista_live_impacting_google.php
>
> Microsoft still plays dirty. Google foresaw this. Firefox doesn't even play
> nice with Vista (or vice versa rather).
>
Of course Microsoft will do this. They are unable to compete in any way.
The amazing thing is that the power of their monopoly is still so *huge*
that they can ensure that > 90% of new PCs on shelves are pre-installed
with Windows Vista, and that Vista will not properly run Open Office,
Firefox, Thunderbird, or indeed, anything else which competes with
anything from Microsoft, furthermore, they point everything web-based
to Microsoft sites, and will continue to switch things "back" whenever
you do an update, or at least, the machine does one for you, because I
very much doubt that the customer will get a choice.
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