On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:43:28 +0000, 7 wrote:
> Rick wrote:
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>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:02:26 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Microsoft cries foul over Google Outlookware
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>>> | If you install Google's new Redmond-battling Outlook plug-in, it |
>>> automatically disables Microsoft's Windows desktop search service. And
>>> | Microsoft is peeved.
>>> |
>>> | [...]
>>> |
>>> | "When a Google Apps user installs the sync plugin for Outlook, the
>>> plugin | modifies a registry key which disables Windows Desktop Search
>>> from indexing | and providing search functionality for all Outlook
>>> data, not just the Outlook | data being synchronized from GMail.
>>> Because Outlook search relies upon the | indexing performed by Windows
>>> Desktop Search, Outlook search functions are | broken as a result,"
>>> Microsoft's blog post reads. `----
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/17/
>> microsoft_whines_over_google_outlook_plugin/
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>> Isn't this the same sort of behavior that Microsoft has been guilty of
>> in the past? At the moment, Google can't set market prices, and they
>> haven't, to my knowledge, tried to bar entry to market, much less
>> actually barring entry. Still... "do no evil"... Hmm?
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> 'surely the user has expressed the desire to disable outdated
> features of outlook in order to enjoy the superior benefits brought to
> them by google'
>
Frying pan -> fire ?
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Rick
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