The Department of Justice and 17 states took a look as part of the ongoing monitoring of Microsoft’s compliance with antitrust laws and deemed the browser perfectly acceptable, as it gives the user the ability to choose their own search engine. Replied Google:
“Changing the search engine may be simple by Microsoft’s standards,” Google said in a statement. “But if it were truly simple, users would be able to change the default with one click.”As I said in our earlier report, this strikes me as a faux pas by Google that makes them come across as the kid snitching on who took the last cookie from the cookie jar. You’ve always been precocious, Google, but now it’s time to grow up.“Microsoft could have easily designed it that way,” the Google statement added. “Instead, they’ve built it so users have to go through multiple steps to choose a search engine.”
[via Ars Technica ]
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