Post: What's an OS?
What's an OS? →
Posted Thursday 21st June 2007 03:16 GMT
In Rivals torture consumers via Microsoft
> ...an OS provider (that is OPERATING system provider) shouldn't be involved in user level things such as search.
I think you are confusing an Operating System with a Kernel.
Microsoft is an OS provider, not a kernel provider. An Operating System can include anything that's not application specific and still be an OS.
Search is not application specific, as isn't TCP/IP or a browser.
BTW, Desktop Search in vista is easy to disable as is. There's nothing today that prevents you from disabling Vista's DS and installing Google's. The move is about what comes enabled by default.
Since DS is NOT a business for Microsoft, how can you claim that they are "extending" their monopolu to other "businesses".
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