MSN Search and antitrust
First Internet Explorer, now Windows Media Player. Will Microsoft's next big bundling battle with antitrust enforcers revolve around the incorporation of MSN Search features into future Windows versions? This internetnews.com article says no:
Microsoft is developing its next-generation Windows, code-named Longhorn, and, in parallel, a new file system, WinFS, that will allow users to easily search for all kinds of files -- as the desktop search tool does. The company hopes to avoid the Media Player's [antitrust] problems with MSN search, [product manager Justin] Osmer said. "It's not our intention to have the toolbar suite preinstalled on anything," he said. It will remain something that users must download separately. Neither will there be a pre-installed product in the browser or desktop flagged as MSN Search.
Posted by Todd Bishop at December 23, 2004 09:21 AM