AUSTIN, TEXAS - In a move that underscores the cut-throat competition in the PC marketplace, Dell Computer, the world's biggest PC manufacturer, announced last week it will sell PCs with pre-installed search software from Google.
For Dell, the partnership represents the latest attempt to boost revenues as it struggles against slumping margins, slowing sales growth and a resurgence at its main competitor, Hewlett-Packard.
From Google's viewpoint, the move to offer its factory-installed search technology drives a wedge into the hegemony of Microsoft whose preinstalled software tools have long dominated the PC desktop.
Comments Google ceo Eric Schmidt: "We are partnering on the advertising and there's more to come." He declined to elaborate on what that "more" might be.
Dell to Pre-Install Google Software on PCs
News, 29 May 2006
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