What Microsoft doesn't want you to know about Vista SP1
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 2.10.2007
Microsoft touts performance and reliability as the key benefits of Vista's SP1, but a close look at the beta shows a significant change Microsoft doesn't seem to want you to know about --- you can now easily change your default desktop search tool to Google Desktop Search, or any another one.
As I point out in my review of the beta of SP1, SP1 makes several interface changes related to search. The Start menu's Search link has been taken away, and if you choose Start --> Default Programs --> Set your default program, you can easily change your default search to any tool you want. As I show in my review, there are several other changes related to search as well.
Those changes were not made willingly. Microsoft made them as an extension of the company's 2002 antitrust settlement with government regulators.
But in briefings Microsoft gave to the press, PointPoint presentations, and a white paper about SP1, Microsoft made no mention of the change, even though the company presented in exquisite detail many other much more minor changes that SP1 makes.
The reason is pretty clear: Google already owns Internet search. Microsoft worries that it could also own desktop search, which could cause serious problems for Microsoft.
But neglecting to tell people about one of the more significant changes SP1 makes isn't the way to combat Google. People are too smart for that --- they'll find out how to use an alternate desktop search on their own.
Ironically, Vista's built-in search is superior to Google Desktop Search --- Microsoft doesn't need to resort to these kinds of tactics in order to combat Google. Google Desktop Search treats your data as if it's Internet data; Vista's search treats it like it's desktop data. So the Vista search is far more flexible, and better integrated into the operating system. My guess is that most people won't make the move to Google Desktop Search, even when they find out how easy it is to switch.
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Comments(9)
funny how google scares microsoft...
and it's nothing but a search engine...
now if it was an os,that would be something worth of getting scared.
i wouldn't be
surprise if google picks up my idea/sugestion! ;)
peace \/
google more than a search engine now.
i don't use any of google's services accept
search engines but i know they got lots of other services and programs.
goog
stock is $584.39 a share and msft only $29.70
goog stock may be 584, but the real value of msft is in the thousands because of so many
splits it has done over the years...
i didn't say google was a bigger company i know msoft has more volume noob!
the result of your search has to be something the american government finds usefull to
the american dollar.
microsoft cp (nasdaqgs:msft) market cap: 278.45b and google (nasdaqgs:goog) market
cap: 182.41b and either way i would rather own a monopoly that can force people to use
what ever i want them to use and charge them any price i want and get prez bushy to make
any laws i want to keep it that way!
this is older than crap, i have been using google search since beta testing started way
back when...seems that kez is running out of new stuff... why thrash old stuff..or bash .
lets find new to talk about... or stfu
you can do this with vista rtm!!!!!!
vista sp1 is a joke!!
i have nothing
wrong with my vista rtm 6000! in fact i’ve tried all sp1´s they crashed or freeze my pc!
took sp1 away and it runs like a dream!! and it run´s faster without sp1 too!!!!!!
vista ...nothing more than sheer shitttttttt..
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By rucamx PT on 03.10.2007 - 02:10