Microsoft Corp. late today fired off a return legal salvo at Google Inc., and filed a memorandum with a federal judge arguing that its rival should not be allowed to intervene in the antitrust case settled in 2002.
Earlier Monday, Google submitted a request to file an amicus curiae, or "friend of the court," brief with Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who oversees the consent decree between federal and state regulators on one side, and Microsoft on the other. In the brief, Google said that last week's deal over changes to Windows Vista's desktop search didn't go far enough, and it asked the judge to extend her oversight to make sure Microsoft made good on its promises.
Hours later, Microsoft contended that Google has no standing in the case, and so should not be allowed to join the settlement discussion. "Google has nothing new to offer the Court, except for the veiled request that this Court go behind the enforcement decision of the plaintiffs and make Google the '20th Plaintiff'," Microsoft's seven-page memo read.
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Earlier Monday, Google submitted a request to file an amicus curiae, or "friend of the court," brief with Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who oversees the consent decree between federal and state regulators on one side, and Microsoft on the other. In the brief, Google said that last week's deal over changes to Windows Vista's desktop search didn't go far enough, and it asked the judge to extend her oversight to make sure Microsoft made good on its promises.
Hours later, Microsoft contended that Google has no standing in the case, and so should not be allowed to join the settlement discussion. "Google has nothing new to offer the Court, except for the veiled request that this Court go behind the enforcement decision of the plaintiffs and make Google the '20th Plaintiff'," Microsoft's seven-page memo read.
View: Computer World
Also in the memo, Microsoft attempted to undercut Google's reason for extending the consent decree by promising to release a beta Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) before the decree's Nov. 12 expiration. Google had hinted that Microsoft, which had previously committed to launching SP1 only before the end of the year, might never implement the changes. The Nov. 12 deadline for Vista SP1 is the firmest timetable yet for any major milestone of the update.
Also in the memo, Microsoft attempted to undercut Google's reason for extending the consent decree by promising to release a beta Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) before the decree's Nov. 12 expiration. Google had hinted that Microsoft, which had previously committed to launching SP1 only before the end of the year, might never implement the changes. The Nov. 12 deadline for Vista SP1 is the firmest timetable yet for any major milestone of the update.
I think he's referring to the summary posted on Neowin. Generally you expect the Neowin summary to contain at least some mention of the topic in the subject of the news. This article doesn't.
Clearly your newsposters should read the article properly, so they'd post an appropriate summary. The summary that's posted looks like it's from a totally unrelated story. Those are the hazards when you C&P your news, I suppose...
Who ever did the article needs to find better sources to make things more clear...
Agreed. I have began to hate Google because they are always complaining about almost everything. That's why I switched from Google to Windows Live.
I agree also, and I also switched from Google to Windows Live the other week
They don't like it when MS make any dash at their own attempts to take over the world!!
Just in case you want to see what's coming out for SP1 for Vista
So we find and report the original Vista bugs, and then we find and report the bugs in the fixes for the bugs....
I like Vista, but this is ridiculous!
MS has done it since at least 7 years ago with Windows 2000 SP1 beta on MSDN.
What's the problem really?
Obviously, more public testing by those who don't mind doing that sort of thing will mean a better final product because MS get more bug reports.
MS has done it since at least 7 years ago with Windows 2000 SP1 beta on MSDN.
What's the problem really?
Obviously, more public testing by those who don't mind doing that sort of thing will mean a better final product because MS get more bug reports.
The problem on this site is a lot of people have no idea what beta is or why it's used, hence they stick it on their production machines and bitch.
I totally agree with everything you say, i woudl much rather someone else finds the bugs than I do.What really scares me is this they say they like vista, so hey i wouldn't believe a lot they say
i see now, thats why they are one of the biggest companies in the world. i think the company i wrrk for needs to get some poor managers, MS has a lot of products and saying their management in general is poor is just stupid, from what i have seen of office 2007 the management team behind that is brilliant.
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