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Google vs. Microsoft: Trustbusters Not Needed

Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Chris Hedlund

In the fourth quarter of 2004, Google, a company renowned for its Web search service, released the Google Desktop, a software program that lets users search through materials stored on their own computers, from e-mail to Microsoft Word files to recently browsed Web pages. Google Desktop is the company’s first major foray into PC client software, and its release may mark the beginning of the end of Microsoft’s dominance of that territory. This developing challenge may confound those who have argued that Microsoft had a permanent, unassailable monopoly that could be weakened only by government intervention. Perhaps someone should tell the trustbusters in Washington and Brussels that technology markets are working and their services are no longer needed.