Microsoft agrees to change Vista Desktop Search Tool
In response to a Google complaint, Microsoft will make it easier for Windows Vista users to run desktop search programs.
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to modify its Windows Vista operating system in response to a complaint that its computer search function put Google Inc. and other potential rivals at a disadvantage, the Justice Department and Microsoft said on Tuesday.
Under an agreement with the department and 17 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia, will build into Vista an option to let users select a default desktop search program on personal computers running Windows.
“Customers and Search Vendors will benefit from this move” said David Goebel, president of Goebel Group inc.
The changes will come is a service pack at due at the end of 2007.