“The complaint says that Vista’s indexing service cannot easily be turned off and creates a drag on system resources when operating at the same time as rival indexers, like the one in Google Desktop Search. Google argues that this behavior is anticompetitive”

-via ars technica

Google is over doing it this time. This is absurd and the complaint will be throw out. Vista search performance and UI is better, if you using XP use Google desktop search, on Vista the in-built search is excellent. I see no reason why Microsoft should provide alternatives, it is their OS.

So they should give an option for every 3rd party app. that is out there? All that will be left is the core system programs and explorer, wait there will be a 3rd party explorer too! Rubbish!

Why is it when Microsoft adds anything to their operating system it’s anti-competitive, but when anyone else adds to theirs it’s a feature?

Well ask Google to provide search alternatives like ask.com and Live Search on their page or stop whining and start build their own freaking OS! I guess their ‘Don’t be Evil’ motto is still beta.

“Microsoft Corp. yesterday said it would limit support for three versions of the Windows Vista operating system, including its most expensive, to five years rather than the usual 10 years.”

As far as I can tell, this has caused an “uproar” amongst the people on the blogosphere but thinking about this, there can only be two solutions. The first one is void of course:

1. Windows Vista will be replaced by a new operating system within the 5 years and ultimately Vista will become obselete. Maybe so, maybe it’ll be replaced within 5 years which is more than likely but will not necessarily make Windows Vista obselete. Windows XP is still more used than Vista, and as people get used to the old ways, it makes it harder to keep things new.
2. It’s a legal thing.

I was on the phone to a friend of mine who works at a legal firm in Nottingham, UK, and it seems that the limited time for support is actually a legal requirement. Just as cars and the manufacturers can only sell spare parts for the models for a certain length of time.

However there is a legal silver lining, that according to my friend: “If it is deemed appropriate, the time can be lengthened as long as the necessary bodies approve. It’s a case of having to wait for the time to expire until they apply for more time.” We both agreed, whilst she is in the legal profession, that it is “bloody stupid but somehow necessary”.

“The MPAA have responded to the claims that they illegally used Patrick Robin’s blogging software. They say they were only testing it, and that the blog was “never advertised to the public in any way”. I wonder what would happen if a filesharer said he was just “testing” a movie.”

Read more about this absurdity here!