Google Starts Whining About Vista Desktop Search, a Microsoft Innovation

I love you Google but this whining crap really kills your brand name. Microsoft invented these instant search features, the "Windows key-n-type" feature is one feature for which we owe ode to Microsoft, and other features you want control of are patented, and Apple copied them (granted both Apple and Google got their product to market first) and now Google is whining that they can’t turn off Microsoft’s own Desktop Search Index and fill all of the OS boxes and patented features with their own products.

So basically, Microsoft pays for the R&D for inventing something new, others copy them, and still others feel like they should be able to outbid Microsoft for a feature they invented on their on freaking operating system.

What’s next, are you going to complain that Microsoft should let you put your own kernel in, and get rid of their kernel? Microsoft should have to pay Dell to include it’s own kernel with Vista? Should you be able to bid Microsoft out of having Outlook install by default to work with Exchange? Pay Dell to Make Outlook work by default with only Gmail? The real ugly part about this is the fact that the company who says they do no evil are in fact lying, stating that this gives users less choice. That’s entirely wrong, you want to stuff Google products down user’s as well, you don’t pop up a wizard asking the user what they want and Microsoft has taken zero actions to stop you from distributing your own desktop search, and when you don’t let Live.com be a search provider choice in Firefox (not that anyone would use it…) you are complaining about the same thing that you do. How is forcing Microsoft to bid on it’s own features going to help the end user out? I totally understood that the browser search feature but that’s because Microsoft could then have an advantage over you in your own territory, search.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/319231_msftgoogle09ww.html

If I am totally wrong, please someone slap me and show me how I’m wrong. I love Google they are perhaps one of my favorite companies but you can’t take something which Microsoft practically invented and force them to cede control of it to you. We are not talking about internet search here Google, and let’s face it, Microsoft doesn’t have the claws it had in the 90’s, and there is a lot of FOG out there.

Please do start whining when Microsoft takes away your ability to use your software on their operating system which they haven’t (AFAIK), you have just as much ability to compete as they do. Remember, you didn’t invent the "Start, Type Feature, if you did things would be different." (Too many people think this an Apple invention in Finder when Microsoft unveiled it long before anyone else.) Google, release a freagin Google OS or quit whining, this is almost as annoying as Microsoft and the whole Linux thing.

I just want to remind folks that I have zero interest in Microsoft financially or in any other way…. One of the key social cool things to do are to bash Microsoft no matter what… In other words, I don’t know any A list bloggers who defend Microsoft when they should.