Comments on: Judge rejects Google's anti-Microsoft antitrust bid

Federal judge presiding over Microsoft antitrust case says she'll rely on government attorneys, not Google, to guide enforcement.

[tgrenier]

phew

This was one of the most baseless compaints to date. Computer search should most certainly be an OS requirement. As far as slowing down other applications: That argument can be made about every process. Why don't they complain the the print spooler slows down Google search and ask for it to be removed. Better yet Google Earth slows down Google Desktop. Love it or hate it, Windwows is modifiable. Maybe that's its problem.

[Lindy01]

I could not

agree more. Why doesnt Google get the courts to force Apple to allow Google search into OS-X? I would love to see that cat fight.

Apple has never beed forced to change their OS...and its more closed than windows.

[mwendy]

Complaint Competitor-driven

The California attorney representing the state let the cat out of the bag; said he at the hearing: "There's a lot of money for market participants in the desktop changes urged by Google."

To which the judge quickly jumped in: "Don't you mean hopefully the changes made to resovle the Google concern will benefit consumers...isn't that your main concern. The consumer, not the company?"

"Sure, your Honor. Y-you j-jumped ahead of me on this...I am not an advocate of that company..."

Ahhh, rrright.

[t8]

Competition vs consumers

But preserving competition gives consumers choice.

The browser market is a perfect example. Microsoft illegally destroyed competing browsers by bundling their one and then did no work or innovation on browsers for the next 7 years because there was no incentive or competition for them to bother.

Now there is Firefox and is it a coincidence that suddenly there is new development for IE.

It's not too hard to understand.

Competition is good for consumers.

[medinaw]

judge sides with Microsoft over Google

Maybe this Judge is smart enough to see that Google is just as big a monopoly as microsft and should let the government due thier job.