Google Software To Be Bundled On Dell PCs?
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Microsoft was right to fear Google’s future. And if it doesn’t, it really should, because the former search engine (and current Internet services provider) has taken one more step towards challenging Microsoft Corp.'s dominance of desktop software.
Thus, according to Reuters, Bob Kaufman, a spokesman for Dell, the world's leading personal computer maker, said his company is evaluating a pre-installed package of Google software on Dell computers that PC customers could use to search both the public Web and for local information stored on their PCs.
'We can confirm that we are running a test with Google that could include a Google-powered Dell home page, Google desktop search and a Google Toolbar,' Kaufman told Reuters.
'We are conducting a test of distribution of some of our software via Dell,' Google spokesman Jon Murchinson said.
Dell and Google spokesmen were responding to a report in the Wall Street Journal that described the inroads Google appears to be making with personal computer makers including Dell and No. 2 vendor Hewlett-Packard Co..
Microsoft was right to fear Google’s future. And if it doesn’t, it really should, because the former search engine (and current Internet services provider) has taken one more step towards challenging Microsoft Corp.'s dominance of desktop software.Thus, according to Reuters, Bob Kaufman, a spokesman for Dell, the world's leading personal computer maker, said his company is evaluating a pre-installed package of Google software on Dell computers that PC customers could use to search both the public Web and for local information stored on their PCs.
'We can confirm that we are running a test with Google that could include a Google-powered Dell home page, Google desktop search and a Google Toolbar,' Kaufman told Reuters.
'We are conducting a test of distribution of some of our software via Dell,' Google spokesman Jon Murchinson said.
Dell and Google spokesmen were responding to a report in the Wall Street Journal that described the inroads Google appears to be making with personal computer makers including Dell and No. 2 vendor Hewlett-Packard Co..
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