Microsoft Gives Users Choice, When It Has To
You always have options with Microsoft, sometimes.
When it comes to virtualization, you had a almost had a choice yesterday when Microsoft announced that lower cost versions of Vista could be used with virtualization tools like VMWare and Parallels. That one was as long lived as a virtual particle in quantum physics. By the end of the day, to stay in compliance with the ELUA, you were back to forking over about $300 to run Visio on your Mac.
Don't like Vista's desktop search? You will have a choice on that one. Leading with a bit of information on the scheduled release date of Vista SP1 in a Department of Justice document, ComputerWorld goes on to report that we will have choice in desktop search by the end of the year:
In the compromise struck between Microsoft and state and federal antitrust regulators, the company must make changes to Vista's desktop search tool so users and OEMs can pick a default search and indexing program to replace Vista's baked-in software for running Start menu searches. The user- or OEM-selected default must also be an option in searches initiated from Windows Explorer or the Control Panel.
Sticking it to customers on the virtualization front may be part of a short term strategy to maximize revenues. Google "backup plan" for revnue when the online advertising market matures is Google Apps. What is Microsoft's backup plan when Google eats its lunch?
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