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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."
Windows XP keeps your desktop from becoming overly clutterled with icons you haven't used recently, which makes searching your desktop *much* easier. Clearly, they are the TRUE innova[tt]ors here.
And if that's not enough, the second core should drastically improve that little doggie's performance.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
they both imply that Microsoft will provide more robust features with the release of Longhorn
So, OS technology will have improved in 18-24 months?
Amazing!
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Windows 95 brought us far more features than Macintosh 84.
They didn't give an exact date. But, they did mention something about hell and snowman.
You don't have to be smart to use a Mac, you just have to be smart enough to buy one
With the exception of GUI design, networking, popup menus, text rendering, web standards, file systems, security, user friendliness, software licensing agreements, programming languages, feature creep/application bloat and general business practices.
Other than those things they're great! :)
No shit, Sherlock. :)
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Engineer 1 (GENIUS): Wow, these 100GB hard disks sure hold a lot of data.
Engineer 2: Yeah, I know, half the time I can't find a file I made a few days ago.
Engineer 1 (GENIUS): Well, these are computers after, all, wouldn't it be nice if there were some way to actually search for your data?
Engineer 2: Well, there's that cute puppy thingy.
Engineer 1 (GENIUS): No I mean a way that didn't suck.
Engineer 2: *** dumbstruck ***
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Microsoft has been the *best* and *truest* inovator of the MS Windows desktop (and of MS Windows OSes for that matter) the world has ever seen. Nobody puts more features in to MS windows applications than anybody else. True it does borrow some ideas from *completely* unrelated fields (such as OSX for instance). But putting those features into MS Windows is the real litmus test of MS Windows OS inovation.
Anyone remember xargs?
/dev/null
find . | xargs grep foo
ah, the good old days.
This just in! Microsoft downplays competitor's achievement with a promise of better functionality in a vaporware product! Film at 11!
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That scares me.
If Smart Folders detect porn, and put all my porn into one folder, then I'll literally have a hundred thousand files in one folder. I doubt Finder, Explorer, or Nautilus can handle browsing such a beast.
Unless; Smart Folders can automatically put my porn into; Readheads, Asian, Lesbian, Threesomes, Celebrities, etc. . . .
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Desktop search will be wonderful in Longhorn. Like I can wait until 2008 to find those desktop icons MS keeps hiding :o)
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Naturally. In fact, with Smart Folders you can get very, very specific. All Redhead lesbians in 3-way action involving one person with an artificial limb. There, that ought to cut it down to only a few thousand pics right there.
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*ponders*
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You mean that MS might provide more robust features. They are not the first and not the last company to over promise when it comes to software. DNF anybody? Longhorn was supposed to have the new WinFS. No, it doesn't. Wait, now it does. It's changed so much I can't remember.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
That's "snowball's chance in hell" (Results 1 - 10 of about 27,300), not "snowman's chance in hell" Results 1 - 10 of about 615. Oddly enough, I did not use longhorn's fancy search engine to find that out...
Who are you? The new #2 Who is #1? You are #617565. I am not a number, I am a free man! Muhahaha.
Is it me, or does it seems that Longhorn will be released with a free copy of Duke Nukem Forever??
By that, you can already expect the release date.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." E. W. Dijkstra
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!1!eleven!!!1!!
You *completely* missed your cue!
Okay, everybody, from the top of page four!
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
If you confuse Contextual Linkage engine with "Trappist Westvleteren 12 (Yellow Cap)", which is a type of beer, you're either way too drunk or very extremely not drunk, so much so you've gone through the other side and have emerged into drunkeness.
I think you were trying to point here.
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... aaaannnd DELETE.
You're right, this is a useful feature!
I remember an actual quote from a Microsoft executive (Ballmer?) many years ago along the lines of, "They just copied what we're going to have to the next version of..." something.
That's a statement you have to go to Bizarro World to parse.
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"cure cancer" ?
So... Longhorn will finally kill off Linux?
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Curtains for windows?
Since you apparently live in a magical fantasy land, let me take a moment to clue you into the rest of the world.
By and large the following is how everyone, who's not got some kind of wacky-ass stake in MSFT (stock, employment, subcontractor, etc) looks at internally-developed Microsoft products:
Microsoft SP1 = Anyone else's Final
Microsoft Final = Anyone else's Beta
Microsoft Beta = Anyone else's Alpha
Microsoft Alpha = Segmentation fault
But I do agree that the nonstop series of BSODs from Microsoft Alphas makes my work much easier. Because I turn the box off and use a functional system to get work done.