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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by johncolanduoni on Saturday October 01, 2016 @02:14PM (#12619130)
I don't think the Bing Search option would be sufficient to ward off anti-trust claims, unless you made Bing search the default or did something crazy like make phones flip a coin and then decide which search to default to.
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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by brianwawok on Saturday October 01, 2016 @02:27PM (#12619199)
Microsoft never made Google the default search on Windows. Just offered the option.
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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by pgeorgi on Saturday October 01, 2016 @03:49PM (#12619594)
In current Windows 10 Bing is the only provider for Cortana, which is enabled by default, both for the conversational interface as well as all shell search features.
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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by AsyncAwait on Saturday October 01, 2016 @03:30PM (#12619493)
Additionally, forcing a company to effectively hide, (many users never change the defaults), its own product by making the competing one the default, goes way beyond what a government body should be able to compel a company to do, in my opinion.
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