{"id":232,"date":"2007-06-11T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-11T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T12:50:00","slug":"google-microsoft-at-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/232-google-microsoft-at-odds.html","title":{"rendered":"Google, Microsoft &#8216;at odds&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The two top companies are at odds over desktop searches, or software that allows a personal computer user to rapidly find information on their own hard drives. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Google offers a program to do this, and so does Microsoft as part of Windows Vista. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Google had filed a 50-page complaint in April with the US Department of Justice charging that users of Vista are disadvantaged if they install the Google tool, the Wall Street Journal reported. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">It said Microsoft rejected the complaint. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">After previous complaints, Microsoft is bound by an antitrust settlement with state and federal antitrust authorities. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Google alleged that the latest version of Microsoft&#39;s windows operating system worked slower if consumers used rival desktop-search applications provided by Google and others, because it was practically impossible to disable the Vista desktop search. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Although only a limited number of internet users have Google&#39;s free search tool installed on their computers, Google claimed it helped build a good relationship between Google and online users. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">According to the newspaper, Google has been in talks with the Department of Justice on the issue for one year, but analysts said the complaint was likely a riposte to a separate legal challenge from Microsoft against Google&#39;s alleged dominance in advertising. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Microsoft has asked anti-trust authorities to prevent Google&#39;s acquisition two months ago of DoubleClick.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet search company Google has accused software giant Microsoft of breaching a US legal settlement that was supposed to reduce the dominance of the Windows operating system, a US report said on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}