Google to Help Microsoft Promote Windows
Filed in: Google, Microsoft — November 1st, 2004
Microsoft has found an unlikely new partner to help promote Windows XP: Google.
While senior Microsoft executives pit the company against Google in a looming Internet search war, the Redmond, Washington-based company has begun offering a Google search tool for download from the Microsoft.com Web site.
Google’s Deskbar is included in Microsoft’s Partner Pack for Windows, a collection of Microsoft and third-party products released last week that Microsoft describes on its Web site as “the ultimate application package” for a Windows XP PC.
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November 2nd, 2004 at 10:24 pm
Nathan Weinberg of InsideGoogle suspects that the MS Partner Pack is just to encourage ppl to install the .NET framework. You can read his entry here http://insidegoogle.blogspot.com/2004/10/why-microsoft-released-partner-pack.html