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The US Justice Department has urged state authorities to reject Google's anti-trust claim against Microsoft.

Google complained to regulators that Microsoft's Vista operating system discouraged use of Google search.

Thomas O Barnett, assistant attorney general, sent a memo to state attorney generals encouraging them to drop the enquiry, according to Sunday's New York Times.

Such an action is very unusual and may have had the opposite effect - several states will pursue the case with or without federal help, the paper claims. Before joining the department Barnett was a senior partner in the anti-trust division of lawyers Covington and Burling, which represents Microsoft.

The complaint has not been made public but alleges that Vista slows down Google's desktop search product. It has been made to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly who oversees the Microsoft consent decree - the body set up to police Microsoft's anti-trust settlement with US states in 2001.

More is likely to be learnt at a hearing in front of Judge Kollar-Kotelly later this month.

There's more from the NYT here. ®

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Anonymous Coward

Deffo Pot and kettle

Google Desktop search slows everything else down!

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Who cares...

... like I'm bothered with Google desktop search when I have Vista, it looks so pretty :)

"But doesn't it slow down everything?", funnily enough no it doesn't, I was expecting it to but installing Vista has meant my Laptop has started performing a lot better than when I had XP Media Centre (or XP 98 2nd Edition as I liked to call it).

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Anonymous Coward

I've run vista...

... since January 2007, and I've only a coupel of times used any SE other than Google.

As for slowing Google Desktop Search down - Vista changed a lot of things, lots of apps don't quite work how they did previously, until the developers catch up and patch them/work out what's going on.

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