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Story: Microsoft announces desktop search tool date

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Let's look at this in a slightly wider context.
Microsoft is feeling a very real and tangible squeeze from the likes of Firefox, Google and increasingly Linux. Added to that, it's next product release is delayed by an order of years.
So what do you do...?
Simple really - get anything that is nearly ready out the door quick before significant market share is lost.
Now look again at the wording of the press release , they want us to think of this as a multi horse race - get behind your favourite, bet, vote whatever - "We're going to have a heck of a great race in search between Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. It's going to be really fun to follow"
All this, and all they've given us is a likely date! Won't this race be over by the time Microsoft find the start line?

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