Steve Ballmer: Goolge's allegations are 'unfounded'

Microsoft executives affirmed Google's complaints about the software giant's insistence on competitors as "lack of facilities" and "unfounded", marking a new battle screen between the two companies. Unarmed enemies.

In a complaint filed with the US Department of Justice last December, Google complained that the new operating system Windows Vista has a feature that allows users to search inside a computer hard drive.

The problem is that this feature lacks too much memory, and it doesn't "leave" room for other desktop search applications (such as Google Desktop).

Google said this feature violated the settlement agreement Microsoft created with the US government in 2002, after the software giant was sued by Netscape for the same reason.

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO.Source: Reuters

Back then, Netscape said that Microsoft bundled the Windows browser with the Windows operating system was a "anticompetitive" behavior, forcing users to abandon non-Microsoft browsers.

" History is repeating. Microsoft is taking advantage of its unique position in the operating system market to make it difficult for rivals and compromise competition in the market. Newly released" Microsoft features. "integrated into the operating system without making users pay any more ," Google alleges.

Meanwhile, Steve Ballmer insists his firm still " strictly adheres to" the deal signed with the US government, and calls all allegations from search rivals "groundless ".

The latest controversy between the two tech giants shows the growing competition between them: On the one hand is Microsoft, the world's largest desktop software maker with one side, Google, the number one search engine. Search the Web and other Web-based services.

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