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The US Justice Department has urged state authorities to reject Google's anti-trust claim against Microsoft. Google complained to regulators that Microsoft's Vista operating system discouraged use of Google search. Thomas O Barnett, assistant attorney general, sent a memo to state attorney generals encouraging them to drop …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Yes it slows down Google Desktop search....

    But doesn't it slow down everything?

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  2. SpitefulGOD

    lol

    If the allegations are found to be true, then it would be rather funny, I've always though of adding a few lines to remove some other programs registry settings. Oh well

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  3. Dillon Pyron

    Conflict of interest?

    Wouldn't that be considered a conflict of interest? I mean that's, at the very least, an amicable pre-existing relationship.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    I've run vista...

    ... since January 2007, and I've only a coupel of times used any SE other than Google.

    As for slowing Google Desktop Search down - Vista changed a lot of things, lots of apps don't quite work how they did previously, until the developers catch up and patch them/work out what's going on.

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  5. Rob

    Who cares...

    ... like I'm bothered with Google desktop search when I have Vista, it looks so pretty :)

    "But doesn't it slow down everything?", funnily enough no it doesn't, I was expecting it to but installing Vista has meant my Laptop has started performing a lot better than when I had XP Media Centre (or XP 98 2nd Edition as I liked to call it).

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Deffo Pot and kettle

    Google Desktop search slows everything else down!

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