Microsoft's dominance of the computer desktop will not be challenged by Google's partnership with Sun Microsystems, according to analysts. But the deal may provide a clue to the internet search engine's next move.
Sun and Google announced yesterday that they would promote and distribute jointly each other’s products. Under the deal, Google's toolbar will offer as an option downloaders of Sun's popular code-compiling engine, Java Desktop. In return, Google will look at ways of distributing OpenOffice, a suite of business applications that is distributed for free and competes with Microsoft's core Office package.
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