Judge Rebuffs Google’s Microsoft Complaint

June 27th, 2007

Score one for Microsoft in its battle with Google. Google’s complaints about its rival’s practices failed to move the judge who is overseeing Microsoft’s antitrust agreement with federal and state governments.On Tuesday, Federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she would not rule on a complaint Google filed about Vista’s search features. The judge has decided to leave the matter in the hands of government lawyers.

At issue are the changes Microsoft agreed to make to Windows Vista last week to address Google’s concerns. Google feared users of the operating system would be discouraged from using competing desktop search tools — namely its own. Although Google wasn’t satisfied with the proposed changes, lawyers representing federal and state governments were content with Microsoft’s move to make other desktop search tools more interchangeable with their own.

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