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And doesn't Firefox have everything defaulting to Google? Why are you not complaining about that one?

Uh, you lost me at the bakery. The Firefox search bar has Alta Vista, Yahoo, Google, Answers.com and a couple of other search engines installed, and you can easily add any search engine you want. While they may have a deal with Google, they don't attempt to block you from using other services.

As to your comment that you're getting MSNBC to play with Win2K and an earlier version of IE and Windows Media player 9, they're still all MS proprietary products. The fact that the site tells you to get newer versions than are actually necessary doesn't invalidate my point.

"The Firefox search bar has Alta Vista, Yahoo, Google, Answers.com and a couple of other search engines installed, and you can easily add any search engine you want"

I& allows you to have any search engine you want whn you install it..
Not only that, IE 7 keeps that same default search engine that you had before and does not switch it to MSN, unlike Firefox, which simply carpet bombs with Google search.

"As to your comment that you're getting MSNBC to play with Win2K and an earlier version of IE and Windows Media player 9, they're still all MS proprietary products"

So what?
MSNBC was a Microsoft owned and created web site.
Its perfectly legal for them to use their site to promote the use of their software.
Even the DOJ never complained about that.
And btw, MSNBC has remained at or near the top in rankings for the # 1 news site on the interned, despite all that, and despite the fact that MSNBC cable has the lowest ratings amongst the cable news channels.