Microsoft Strikes Deal with Sun for Search
by Wyatt WalterOld enemies Sun and Microsoft have struck a deal for Microsoft to leverage Sun software to install the Live search toolbar on PCs. Sun has agreed to package the toolbar along with its Java software. The toolbar will install itself into the IE browser and help boost Microsoft in their fight to climb the search market share ladder. After the Yahoo deal fell through, Microsoft has been pursuing other options. The deal comes to Sun at a time while it is struggling financially – some welcome help, I’m sure.
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Nov 10th, 2008
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November 12th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I thought that IE already had a search bar built-in? I’m unsure how this will help Microsoft, and now Java is just a bit more bloated of an install. Not to mention that we need additional toolbars in our browsers.
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