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Google Complaint Spurs Vista Revision

Microsoft responds to antitrust action with change to desktop search feature

By Dustin Lushing, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 20, 2007 3:40 PM CDT

(Newser) – Microsoft has caved in to Google's antitrust complaints and agreed to alter the search tools in its new Vista operating system by the end of the year. The move is a victory for Google, which complained to antitrust regulators that Vista's hard-drive indexing was difficult... Read full story »

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