Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella dismissed as 'bogus' an argument by rival Google it is easy to change defaults on computers and smartphones, as he testified in a landmark antitrust trial against its parent Alphabet.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella dismissed as "bogus" an argument by rival Google it is easy to change defaults on computers and smartphones, as he testified in a landmark antitrust trial against its parent Alphabet.
John Schmidtlein, Google's lead lawyer, pressed Nadella on the occasions when Microsoft did win default status on computers and mobile phones but users bypassed Bing and continued to use Google by a wide margin. On laptops, most of which use Microsoft operating systems, Bing is the default search engine and has a market share below 20%, Nadella acknowledged.
The question suggests Google's argument – that it is dominant because of its quality and not because of illegal activity – has caught the judge's interest. "When I am meeting with publishers now, they say Google's going to write this check and it's exclusive and you have to match it," he said.
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