Is the search titan's complaint against Microsoft and its Windows Vista desktop search overblown? The bloggers debateNews of Google's claim that Windows Vista desktop search breaks Microsoft's antitrust agreement broke Saturday in The New York Times (readers must log in before reading the article). The Google (GOOG) complaint, filed with the Justice Dept. and state attorneys general, asserts that the search function embedded in Windows Vista interferes with other desktop search tools, including Google's own.
The Times' Stephen Labaton uses the scoop to show how far the Justice Dept. has turned around on the software behemoth since it settled U.S. v. Microsoft in 2002.
"In the most striking recent example of the policy shift, the top antitrust official at the Justice Dept. 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," he writes.
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