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Thursday, February 21, 2008

suits Before installing SP1 I could right click anywhere in Windows Explorer and select search to do searches in that folder. After SP1 it's gone! Why? Blame "us" (the Europeans or actually EU). They (I say they, because Norway is not part of EU :-) ) found a "new" game to play with MS. It's called Antitrust and it's about Suits meeting up in in European courts to talk about software. Browsers are especially popular, but sometimes they talk about other types of software as well. The looser of the Game (usually MS) have to become agile and change their software so the Europeans can get their price. This time MS didn't want to play, so they just gave the EU the price.

What's the price you might ask? A pluggable search architecture. If you are a provider of a desktop search engine, users can now set your search engine as default search in Windows. So what if I want to have the contextual search like it was? Then you can change a registry key as described here or just use Windows key + F as I do.

Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:20:00 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
Competition law is basically a good thing, and making sure that the biggest software vendors don't tie in one product into the sale of another product makes sense to me. But it seams like it is going too far when they define the desktop search as not being a part of the operating system. The developments are worrying - this can be taken too far.

Because the windows OS (or any OS) can be viewed as a bunch of small applications tied together, and in principle any part of it could be delivered by a different vendor. Should everything then be made pluggable? Pluggable architectures are nice for developers, but not necessarily for the product.
Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:35:24 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
Related to desktop search I guess it's because there are other providers of the same technology (or search apps). I agree that Windows should not restrict their access points for search (Windows Start, context menues etc.) to only their own search engine, but make it configurable so that others can link their search engine to this "shortcut". Which is exactly what they did, but what I didn't like however, is that they changed the default functionality. Why not just keep it as it was, but in addition allow for other search vendors to plug in their technology.
Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:38:40 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
"...but what I didn't like however, is that they changed the default functionality. Why not just keep it as it was, but in addition allow for other search vendors to plug in their technology."

I agree, that is just stupid!

Or maybe they wanted to be difficult after the antitrust case :)
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