Microsoft In Mobile Search Deal With Verizon 104
An anonymous reader writes "Verizon Wireless will forge a deal with Microsoft to include the software giant's Live Search on its mobile phones, giving Microsoft a victory over rival Google and ending a months-long dance toward the partnership. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will announce the deal in his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas." InfoWorld notes that Microsoft is rumored to be changing the name of its Live Search service to Kumo, which is Japanese for "cloud."
Cloud? (Score:4, Insightful)
Cloud?! Will the marketroids PLEASE stop referring to the Internet and everything else in it as a 'cloud'!
Thank you. That is all.
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Insightful)
Last month, I had a broken Verizon phone and a year left on my contract. I really wanted an Android-based phone as a replacement, but I figured that would happen later rather than sooner with Verizon given how they like to take their time qualifying new phones (i.e. removing features), so I paid the early termination fee to jump-ship to T-Mobile. With this agreement, it seems even less likely we'll see an Android phone on their network. Even if we did, it'd be amusing to see how they'd try to make MS Live Search the default search engine for it.
Who cares? (Score:4, Insightful)
Unless the phone is retarded, users will still bookmark Google and conduct the search there just like they do in Windows.
And now begins... (Score:2, Insightful)
Pyrrhic Victory (Score:3, Insightful)
giving Microsoft a victory over rival Google
Is that really a victory for Microsoft, or a loss for Verizon?
Bottomless desire for control???? (Score:4, Insightful)
Lets see - if I get the GPhone from T-Mobile I can replace any application I want on it, right down to the kernel. I can totally customize it from the ground up, and use anything I want on it to access any information I want.
Name one Verizon phone that lets me do this? Hell I doubt I will even be able to uninstall this Live Search POS.