The Financial Times reports that Yahoo has partnered with Acer, the fourth largest PC manufacturer to set the default search engine to Yahoo Search on those machines. In addition, the default home page for those browsers will be a co-branded page with links to Yahoo services. The terms of this deal were not disclosed, but we know it will be a multi-year partnership.
We know that Google partnered with Dell and that Google has also partnered with Adobe to get onto the desktop. But this all kind of leads back to Google whining about Microsoft’s unfair advantage.