Microsoft agrees to upgrade its operating system Windows Vista, so that users can have a choice to use any other companies' search tool. This agreement comes after Google's antitrust complaint.
Microsoft has signed the agreement with Justice Department, 17 state attorneys general, District of Columbia. The changes will be available in a service pack or in an updated version of Windows Vista.
David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, said: "Microsoft's current approach to Vista desktop search clearly violates the consent decree and limits consumer choice. We are pleased that as a result of Google's request that the consent decree be enforced, the Department of Justice and state Attorneys General have required Microsoft to make changes to Vista. These remedies are a step in the right direction, but they should be improved further to give consumers greater access to alternate desktop search providers."
Google blamed Microsoft in forcing its Windows Vista operating system users to use the search tool integrated in the OS.
If a user wants to use any other companies search tool such as Google's, he can't disable the search tool provided by Microsoft, so he'll have two search tools running on one PC. Both search tools use hard drive memory, so two search tools running on one PC will decrease its performance.
This means that most of users will be forced to use Windows Vista integrated search tool, which is a antitrust policy against the rival software companies such as Google.
Signing this agreement Microsoft promised to add a feature to disable its integrated search tool and use any other companies' software for search. Besides, Microsoft aims to give some technical details to the software companies, such as Google, so that they can optimize their software to run better on Windows Vista operating system. For HULIQ.com
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