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Microsoft: "Let's cut the next antitrust lawsuit off at the pass."

Changes to Windows Vista aim to comply with the Justice Department's rulings, Google's complaining.

A CNET source said Microsoft plans to use the first Vista service pack to do something or another to the built in desktop search. For XP, both Google's and Micrsoft's desktop search program were/are stand-alone software. For Vista, Microsoft built their desktop search into the operating system. The change should make it easy for users to change the default desktop search to whichever program they prefer.

If you think desktop search should have been built in to the operating system a long time ago, you're right (Mac users are grinning smugly to themselves right now). Or you may think that it's Microsoft's OS and they should get to build into it whatever they want. I kind of agree with that, except this is the same strategy Microsoft took when they tried (and succeeded) to get an illegal monopoly on web browsers. So they basically brought this on themselves.

[via CNET & Engadget]