HP to make Microsoft Live Search its system default
BetaNews | at | by Mike
BetaNews has learned further details concerning the extent of the partnership between HP and Microsoft. In addition to the Live Search agreement, the computer maker would also install Silverlight, meaning that Microsoft's answer to Flash could potentially now reach millions of new computer buyers.
The plug-in is necessary to run the newest version of the Live Search toolbar, so there would really be no way for the application to not be installed. Today the world's largest computer maker, the company that now embodies two of Microsoft's most vocal opponents with regard to Web tactics no longer has any reservation about giving Microsoft prominent placement.