Microsoft accuses Google of being anti-competitive: Off-topic discussion forum: Grassroots Motorsports Magazine

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March 31, 2011 5:26 p.m. integraguy Dork

Yeah, hard as it is to believe, Microsoft get "ticked" when it can't make up all the rules to all the games it wants to play.

On BBC news, the story is that in Europe, Microsoft is taking Google before the EU....courts? on the charge that Google is trying too hard to let Microsoft get a foothold in the search market. The fact that Microsoft has tried to enter (take over) the search market, probably WON'T be mentioned by Microsoft's lawyers.

I may be the only person who feels this way, but Microsoft, if you want to enter the search market...get a MUCH better name than BING. Then, get a much better PR firm to come up with and then launch commercials for whatever this new search engine is, assuming you try, yet again, to enter the market.
March 31, 2011 5:31 p.m. Tom Suddard SonDork

Do you think Microsoft will mention it stole search results from google?

http://www.reelseo.com/google-accuses-bing/
March 31, 2011 5:34 p.m. 92CelicaHalfTrac SuperDork

^Tommy beat me to it.

This is a joke. Google is going to make Microsoft into a laughing stock on this one.
March 31, 2011 5:51 p.m. integraguy Dork

What's somewhat telling is that this suit is filed in European courts, not American.

I can't help but think this is a stunt or smoke screen by Microsoft because Microsoft has been hauled before the European courts several times in the last few years.
March 31, 2011 5:54 p.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork

Cell phone markets are WAAAAAY bigger in Europe than the states, and the future of computing is mobility. Id be willing to bet thats at least part of the reason you see this charade going on across the pond...
March 31, 2011 6:01 p.m. Jay SuperDork

This is like watching Qaddafi and Kim Jong Il get into a fistfight. You don't want to root for either of them but it's fun to see them both getting sucker-punched.

Wouldn't it be awesome if companies really played the free market game instead of going whining to the governments whenever someone dared try to offer a competing product?
March 31, 2011 6:59 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork

Boy that's the pot calling the kettle black!!

Microsoft invented and lives today off of anti competitive.
March 31, 2011 9:02 p.m. integraguy Dork

carguy123....those were my first thoughts, too.

Jay: this is like Gaddafi criticizing the way Kim Jong Il treats his political enemies.

I didn't get a chance to watch the news on the "Big 3 networks", so I wondered if they even mentioned it.
April 1, 2011 5:53 a.m. z31maniac SuperDork

If Microsoft would just make their search engine, well, not suck, maybe they wouldn't have this problem.
April 1, 2011 10:47 a.m. HiTempguy Dork

I just realized, could this "story" have been a buildup to April Fools?
April 1, 2011 11:45 a.m. Duke SuperDork

I'll just say this:

AutoCAD's help feature now uses IE8 every time you look up a question. It's automatic and there's nothing you can do about it. Otherwise, I wouldn't ever launch Exploder, evar.

Each and every time AutoCAD calls IE, IE gives me a snotty little popup window that informs me that "Some other browser or program" (iow Firefox) has "corrupted" my search preferences so that Bing is not my default search provider. It then informs me that I will be taken to the prefs panel so this situation can be corrected.

There is no choice about this; it is just forced on me. There is no option to leave it the way I want it. This stuff is why I will always think Microsoft are shiny happy people.
April 1, 2011 1:30 p.m. Strizzo SuperDork

Not to mention that office help is now powered by bing and thus, sucks. Don't remember doing the update but it was probably back when my auto update settings "magically" changed themselves and ran a bunch of updates