Microsoft Corp. 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. (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/partnerpack)

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Oh, well. I guess we can’t say that Microsoft carries a grudge… :)