Sun and Microsoft Détente Working: Google Dumped for Live -- Redmond Channel Partner

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Sun and Microsoft Détente Working: Google Dumped for Live

During the heat of the antitrust prosecutions of Microsoft, the Redmond giant made friends with lots of its enemies. Two former foes remain tight: Novell and Microsoft are doing great work on interoperability, and the Sun deal -- though less dramatic -- is working out, as well.

This week, in fact, Sun announced that the MSN Toolbar can be downloaded as part of the Java Runtime. That means the Google Toolbar is getting kicked off, at least in the U.S.

I'd say Microsoft did some pretty fancy negotiating.

Posted by Doug Barney on November 11, 2008

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