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Apple and MS Battle For Desktop Search Supremacy
markmcb writes "As Microsoft and Apple go back and forth about who came up with what idea first, it's been hard to tell who the real innovaters are. Michael Gartenberg and Jim Allchin of Microsoft give some fair opinions on the current desktop search battle. While they do give credit to Apple's iTunes for search inspiration and to Apple being first out of the box in the OS race, they both imply that Microsoft will provide more robust features with the release of Longhorn."
first, this whole "sometime in the future" business won't fly. in the 2 years longhorn's been under development, they've pushed the release date back only once (from may 2006 to oct 2006). in fact, they have been very open about the promised date for some long time. so don't all act like no one knows when it's coming out just because you don't.
another thing: except for some under-the-hood changes, tiger is barely an upgrade, more of an update or service pack. in fact, shame on apple for making you pay!
as for the desktop search, who gives a crap who was first? they both have it, and longhorn's is far better, even in alphas 4051 and 4074. sure it's good in tiger (8a420 and 8a428) and more than is in windows xp, but the fact remains: it's not as good as the one in longhorn, and any innovation in OS X desktop searching will be reflected in future builds of longhorn. then, when longhorn adapts it or comes up with something better, OSX will pick it up. then here we will be again with idiots spouting "sure longhorn's is better but Ocelot or Leopard or whatever-cat-they-name-it-next is out now.
QUIT BITCHING!