Apple and MS Battle For Desktop Search Supremacy 707
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."
No Contest! (Score:5, Funny)
And if that's not enough, the second core [slashdot.org] should drastically improve that little doggie's performance.
Hmm... (Score:4, Funny)
So, OS technology will have improved in 18-24 months?
Amazing!
ahem (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft has delivered in the past. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:With longhorn? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Microsoft always steals features (Score:5, Funny)
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! :)
Re:Uhh, GOOGLE? (Score:5, Funny)
Let's peek in on GENIUS at work. (Score:4, Funny)
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 ***
Manager: Quick, call the patent attorneys!
They're not empty promises (Score:5, Funny)
nostalgia moment (Score:3, Funny)
find . | xargs grep foo
ah, the good old days.
This just in... (Score:5, Funny)
SoupIsGood Food
Re:They both suck (Score:5, Funny)
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. . . .
Re:They're not empty promises (Score:5, Funny)
You might be right, but those guys at Gator/Claria sure gave 'em a run for their money.
Oh great... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They both suck (Score:1, Funny)
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.
Re:No Contest! (Score:1, Funny)
Didn't Bill Gates steal DOS? Didn't Bill Gates break agreements with companies as soon as he got what he wanted? It seems to me that Microsoft is not as much an innovater as a company that aquires other peoples works.
It is like an episode of Bonanza that was on TV today. Joe Cartwright buys a wild black horse for $300, for a friend who really wanted it but could not be at the auction. While in town, Mr. Smith offers $500 to buy the horse and Joe Cartwright says "sorry, he's not for sale". Mr. Smith leaves very upset. The bartender comes up and tells Joe "Don't you know who that is! Mr. Smith owns this town". The next scene is of workers for Mr. Smith beating the stuffing out of Joe and taking the horse. The police shows up at Mr. Smiths house, and he says "I don't know anything about those people who stole the horse". It turns out the Sheriff of that little town is also on Mr. Smiths payroll. Luckily, Ben and Hoss show up in time to shoot all the bad guys and take back the horse.
Microsoft has all the lawyers. Microsoft has many lobbyists and has funded politicians to office. Who can stop Microsoft? If Microsoft does not make it, who can stop Microsoft from stealing it, sending a stream of lawyers to fight it, or calling in political favors?
Re:Dunno... (Score:3, Funny)
-5 Scary
*ponders*
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Promises, promises. (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:With longhorn? (Score:3, Funny)
That's "snowball's chance in hell" [google.com] (Results 1 - 10 of about 27,300), not "snowman's chance in hell" [google.com] Results 1 - 10 of about 615. Oddly enough, I did not use longhorn's fancy search engine to find that out...
Duke Nukem Forever?? (Score:2, Funny)
By that, you can already expect the release date.
Re:No Contest! (Score:5, Funny)
Well it seems obvious. Ben and Hoss need to head on up to Redmond and get us our horse back, if you know what I mean.
And by horse, I mean a usable OSAnd by get back I mean, shoot some people
Re:impromptu poll (Score:3, Funny)
You *completely* missed your cue!
Okay, everybody, from the top of page four!
Re:Some mentioned Beagle, I'll mention Tenor (Score:5, Funny)
I think you were trying to point here. [linuxplanet.com]
Re:No Contest! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Uhh, BeOS LiveQueries? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dunno... (Score:5, Funny)
... aaaannnd DELETE.
You're right, this is a useful feature!
Re:empty vaporware promises... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Why Mr. Allchin, what a big RDF you have! (Score:2, Funny)
So... Longhorn will finally kill off Linux?
That joke... (Score:5, Funny)
Three women are discussing how their husbands make love. The first says, "My husband is a footbal player. He is really powerful and energetic in bed, and this is a real turn on for me." The second says, "My husband is a musician, and when we make love it's as if he were playing me. He al- ways knows exactly what I want and gives it to me without my asking." The third says, "Well, my husband is a sales representative for IBM. When we make love all he does is sit on the edge of the bed and tell me how good it's going to be when I finally get it."
(http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0213.htm)
Re:hey, dumbass (Score:1, Funny)
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.