Google helps promote Windows XP

InfoWorld | at | by Mike

Microsoft has found an unlikely new partner to help promote Windows XP : Google Inc. While senior Microsoft executives pit the company against Google in a looming Internet search war, the Redmond, Washington-based company last week started offering a Google search tool for download from the Microsoft.com Web site. Google's Deskbar is included in Microsoft's Partner Pack for Windows, a collection of Microsoft and third-party products released last week that Microsoft describes on its Web site as "the ultimate application package" for a Windows XP PC.