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Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities
bl8n8r writes "Microsoft is betting millions that someday it will be as well known for search as Google is. Some of its efforts to simplify search on the Internet will soon be in place. The new version of Microsoft's MSN Internet service, available this winter, will include a tool for retrieving digital photos based on images in the pictures. For example, users can ask their computers to retrieve all pictures that include a specific person's face or background."
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Safari is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
It won't be easy to shove [google and yahoo] aside
Shouldn't be too difficult with an unfair monopoly on the computer market.
Googling with site:msdn.microsoft.com
Rumor is that MS will be using robots.txt to prevent Google (their perceived competitor) from indexing MS sites. You'll have no choice but to use their MS search engine in the future.
... engines search for YOU!
Sorry.
We Build Beautiful Websites
I think you mis-typed "R&D" when you meant "M&A".
Microsoft doesn't do research and development, they assimilate and copy other technologies.
Google became number one because they created the best product, not because they leveraged their dominance to force their system upon the masses. As long as users are free to choose which search engine they want to use, Microsoft will be at a disadvantage because the company has NEVER been able to produce a superior product in any category, and has never been able to gain market share on the strength of its products alone. Even the very first victory for MS was due to signging an agreement with IBM to bundle their products.
Just because you Linux idiots don't like IE doesn't make this opinion a troll
and you all still won't admit it.
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
Thank You Micro$oft!!!
WoW, this will make searching for breasts
that much easier.
WoW, Thank you Bill.
Finally, something useful from Microsoft.
In Soviet Russia....
YOU log onto the INTERNET!
...Hmmm, that's strange.
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat