tedster - 7:13 pm on May 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

The current plan, as noted in the IE blog today, is that if you upgrade to IE7, it will inherit whatever search engine you have set in IE6 as your chosen default. I thought it was a timely counter-spin in the public perception wars.

This is one skirmish in a big business war that will go on and on. As I see it, it's mostly an attempt to get the word out a bit further that the engine used in the IE search box is changable. The more people know it can be changed, the better for Google. But expecting it not to have a default setting for MSN is pretty much blue-sky thinking.