MSN Search

With the Beta version of IE7 going live this summer. It got me thinking that a lot of people will download the beta and as MSN search is competing with google, I’m betting that MSN search will be the default home page for IE7. This will be bad news for google as the majority of people will stick with what is given (MSN search page), does this spell the slow demise of google’s search engine. Is this the reason why the seem to be backing Firefox, It’s pure specutlation on my part but I wouldn’t put it past Microsoft to try a stunt like this.
I wonder would that break anti competition laws?. Also with the release of Microsoft’s Windows Longhorn will the default webpage be MSN search or will MSN search be intergrated into windows somehow. If I where in microsoft’s shoes I would steal, cheat, lie, what am I saying thats exactly was microsoft is doing
All i can hope is that by the time IE7 is relased that Firefox will have a big chunk of the browser market, bring on 100million downloads.