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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Says It Knew Antitrust Was Coming (and Ignored it Nonetheless)

Google Vista concerns no surprise to Microsoft

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| However, a person familiar with the matter said that Microsoft
| was made aware of Google's concerns about its desktop search via a 
| telephone call from the Justice Department in early December, 
| shortly after the commercial launch of Vista in late November.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-knew-googles-desktop-search-issues/story.aspx?guid=%7B9B0D43AB%2D8227%2D40E6%2DA300%2D1CAECF5C2C86%7D&siteid=yhoof

Crime is chronical. Google was not the only one that complained or even
declared Vista "illegal" (see references at the bottom). Attempt to squash a
rival with a /superior/ product, as evidenced again in the news...

Search: The next big thing in online video

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| Trying to find a video on the Web can often be a challenge. The big 
| search engines, Google, Yahoo!  and Microsoft's MSN aren't nearly as 
| good as locating relevant video files as they are with text.
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http://mediabiz.blogs.cnnmoney.com/2007/06/13/search-the-next-big-thing-in-online-video/?source=yahoo_quote
http://tinyurl.com/2ub88n


Related:

Vista Limits Choices, Google Alleges

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| Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said yesterday that 
| officials from several states may decide by early next week whether 
| they will ask the judge to force Microsoft to revise Windows Vista, 
| the latest version of the company's operating system. "We've reached 
| a critical juncture in our decision-making process," he said in an 
| interview. "If Microsoft is misusing its market dominance with
| Vista to constrain competition or consumer choice, we will seek 
| appropriate action from the court."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061102177.html?hpid=sec-tech


Antitrust: Google's statement on Windows Vista

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| "Microsoft's current approach with Vista desktop search violates the 
| consent decree and and limits consumer choice. The search boxes built
| throughout Vista are hard-wired to Microsoft's own desktop search 
| product, with no way for users to choose an alternate provider from 
| these visible search access points. Likewise, Vista makes it 
| impractical to turn off Microsoft's search index."
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/Microsoft/archives/116476.asp


Google adjusts privacy policy -- slightly

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| Google has decided to make the data it stores about end users 
| anonymous in its server logs after 18 months, according to a 
| blog posted Monday by the company's global privacy counsel.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=195129821&rid=-50


Microsoft May Be Forced to Alter Vista

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| Antitrust officials may demand that Microsoft Corp. change its
| Windows Vista operating system to address a complaint by Google 
| that the program's design hurts competing software. Vista makes 
| it impractical to turn off Microsoft's self-serving search index.
| Government officials are studying whether Microsoft violated the 
| 2001 consent decree.
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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/0/0EE60406E44ED34C862572F8000CD63B?OpenDocument


ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack

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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon for
| network applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569


Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.

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| Nearly a decade after the government began its landmark effort to break 
| up Microsoft, the Bush administration has sharply changed course by
| repeatedly defending the company both in the United States and abroad 
| against accusations of anticompetitive conduct, including the recent
| rejection of a complaint by Google.
| 
| [...]
| 
| In the most striking recent example of the policy shift, the top 
| antitrust official at the Justice Department last month urged state
| prosecutors to reject a confidential antitrust complaint filed by 
| Google that is tied to a consent decree that monitors Microsoft's 
| behavior. Google has accused Microsoft of designing its latest 
| operating system, Vista, to discourage the use of Google's desktop 
| search program, lawyers involved in the case said. 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10microsoft.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin


Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe (at CNNMoney.com)

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| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
|
| [...]
|
| "Vista is the first step of Microsoft's strategy to extend its market 
| dominance to the Internet," the ECIS statement said.
|
| It said Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML," 
| the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet.
| 
| Microsoft's own language would be dependent on Windows, and discriminatory 
| against rival systems such as Linux, the group says.
|
| They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is 
| designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

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