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Google’s attempt yesterday to inject itself into the compliance procedures for the US Microsoft antitrust settlement were today rejected by the judge overseeing the case:
While Windows dominance of the PC market is not in imminent danger, it is worth noting that lately Apple has been steadily gaining PC market share:
Last week Microsoft promised to make changes in Vista desktop search to placate Google and antitrust regulators, but Google felt they weren’t enough. They now have backed that feeling up with a filing with the court overseeing the US Microsoft antitrust settlement requesting extension of antitrust oversight related to the desktop search question.
Ordinarily, oversight would have expired in November and Google may have a difficult time changing it since they weren’t one of the original plaintiffs in the case. What happened to all the friendly state attorneys general who were plaintiffs and had been threatening to go to bat for Google?
Update: Microsoft files an opposing brief.
Overshadowed by last week’s news that Microsoft was modifying Vista desktop search integration to satisfy a Google complaint to US antitrust regulators, there was the positive resolution for Microsoft by these same regulators of a complaint by the plaintiffs in the Iowa antitrust case. This complaint alleged that Microsoft had violated the the US antitrust settlement by not disclosing APIs and had caused a brief flurry back in January.
