What's Behind Google's Sneak Attack Against Microsoft?

Another day, another charge that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft has violated its consent decree -- or so it must seem to the software titan, which has been battling such accusations ever since the mega antitrust case against it ended in 2002.

In the latest controversy, though, the company lodging the complaint is none other than Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google, an adversary almost equal to the European Commission, which has been lobbing the most successful -- and costly -- complaints at Microsoft.

Google has not openly accused its adversary of making it difficult for third-party search engines to be used -- and more importantly, replaced as the default -- in Microsoft's recently released operating system Manage remotely with one interface -- the HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server., Vista. Those charges were reported by the New York Times on Sunday, based on a leaked memo written by a Department of Justice official. The memo urges state attorneys general to disregard the claims levied by Google, which was referred to only as "a middleware vendor."

Google's complaint has not been made public, so it is difficult to evaluate the accusations and Microsoft's response. However, based on the players involved and on Microsoft's history -- not to mention the Bush Administration's track record on antitrust enforcement -- it is safe to make at least some assumptions about the charges and how this particular chapter in Microsoft's
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