“Microsoft Corp. is developing technology that takes search functions beyond the Internet, allowing users to pore through e-mails, personal computers and even big databases to find information, a top executive said Wednesday,” The Associated Press reports. “The system ‘will, as far as the consumer is concerned, be an end-to-end system for searching across any data type,’ Yusuf Mehdi, head of Microsoft
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I thought Thurott said that OS X was “lagging behind” XP in critical areas. I guess this wasn’t one of them.
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Thurott is my pet bitch and Balmer is my dancing monkey boy.
Redmond is my circus and my customers are cattle.
I got out of the Justic Department mess by threating to break up Microsoft and selling it to the Japanese and export millions of jobs overseas.
I announced my new X-Box was going to use the new IBM G5 chips, so I bought a truckload of PowerMac G5’s, gave the technology to my asian chipmaker friends and announced they are going to make my new X-box chips after they successfully copied the chip.
My new Longhorn will be adopted by all buisnesses, see because if they don’t then they will not be able to find any trained employees or be combatable with my stuff.
I’ll pull my connections and deny them buisness or buy a competitor and run them out of buisness.
I’ll even buy their advertising places, whole newspapers, magazines, tv stations etc.
I rule the world, for I am Billy Goat Gates!
It’s either my way or the highwway.
See even your beloved Mac Daily News takes my money in advertising.
They work for me too. LOL
Geeze, this scares me. Imagine being able to “find” things easily in Windoze. Productivity would actually increase; the economy could turn around — the mind boggles.
as long as mac cost 50% more then wintel
it doesn’t matter
what apple should do about the price is not compete head on
but do what Honda and Toyota does
place a small premium
The Man-X
Bull.
It is actually windoze that costs 50% more.
Take xServe and compare it to similar Dull (1U dual proc). Then ad windoze server licenses for 30-people and surprise! It costs 50% more than xServe.
Apple at the moment is very price competitive they are only lagging model that could compete price vice with the 386 price range ie obsolete pc models that are sold to dummies as e-mail machines.
If you don�t believe me please check the prices from IBM, Dull, HP and so on and remember to ad windoze licenses to every machine. Also remember to ad Bluetooth, Firewire and Wi-Fi capabilities to every machine so that you compare right machines.
Dull costs very often more than Apple. IBM is also expensive.
(Now I am talking about servers and business machines)
Also check what the Red Hat Linux licenses costs.
So repeat after me. Apple is so cheap that next time I will buy two.
This is funny, I always thought the search stuff was one of the cruder aspects of Pather – you’re in a given directory and type in a string and it searches everywhere, unless you make a selection and pick “selection”. The entire finder seems less like the attainment of a refined state than an initial attempt at a new direction of a more browser-like interface. I expect Tiger will be making some definite improvements here. I don’t know anything about what Windows is like I never use it.
The next time, I will buy two. The next time, I will buy two. The next time, I will buy two. The next time, I will buy two. The next time, I will buy two. The next time, I will buy two. The next time, I will buy two. The next time, I will buy two.
Apple is so cheap that next time I will buy two — the next top-of-the-line prosumer and top-of-the-line consumer. What the hell, I’ll eat cereal for the rest of the year — full of goodness and nutrition. Not too heavy; not too light — Just Right!
The next time I will buy Just Right.
The next time I will buy Just Right.
The next time I will buy Just Right.
The next time I will buy Just Right.
The next time I will buy Just Right.
The next time I will buy Just Right.
All right, give it to me now, someone.
A file system that has data that is easily searched must be fairly open.
Virus writers must be wringing their hands in glee at the thought of destroying all that data….
I’m surprised that none of you seem to realize that this wouldn’t have happened if George W. Bush was not in Office.
Search on the Mac OS has been assed up since sherlock and disk indexing were introduced.
odd ogg — Windoze search is a nightmare. Awful interface. If you find anything at all using Windoze search, color yourself lucky. Mac find is lightyears ahead. [fnord]
The next time, I will buy two.
The next time, I will buy two.
The next time, I will buy two…
Yeah I definitely don’t find XP search very intuitive. 9 times out of 10 I don’t find what I am looking for. OSX search function is so deep that it finds files I didn’t even remember I had.
Search using windows is so cool all ready… this will be so much better !
Searching with XP.
Where is the file you are looking for?
I don’t know that is why I am looking for it.
What type of file is it?
I can’t remember that is why I am looking for it.
Then the dumb dog sits there and scratches itself…
While the flashlight goes back and forth…
I love the user interface of XP it feels so at home in the “real IT world”
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Sputnik, LOL, wait til the “Real” sputnik sees this. Oh yeah, he won’t be able to justify posting anything.
In terms of search, I use this great program X1 at work. It indexes your email, attachments and files and is lightening fast. As fast as you type the files or email appear before you. It blows away the OS X search and of course the horrible XP, Outlook search. Unfortunately they only make a version for Windoze. Hopefully OS X will incorporate something like this in the future. http://www.x1.com/
Apple Computer’s Mac OS X operating system remains vulnerable to attacks by hackers, even after the company issued a software update to fix the problem, according to a Danish computer security firm, Reuters reported from San Francisco.
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Niels Rasmussen, chief executive of Secunia, said on Tuesday that while Apple had patched one of the vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X operating system, it did not address what is known as a disk URI vulnerability, which could allows malicious Web sites to silently place code on a user’s system.
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“Mac users are left just as vulnerable as they were last week,” Rasmussen said in a telephone interview.
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Apple did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
http://www.iht.com/articles/522100.html
Chew on that you smug CRAPLE lotus eaters!!
CRAPPLE REALLY SUCKS!
Why do Windoze users settle for 10th best? Jesus when will they learn?
Here’s an example of the havoc the wreak on all of us….
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/27/sandvine/
I only use the search function in the window very occaisionally. I guess I am too used to hitting Apple + F when I need to find something. I do use the search function in Mail a lot though. They should modify it so it will search in all subfolders as well as the parent folder. I always have to end up searching everywhere because it can’t do this.
My Windows computer just exploded and caught fire to my cat. 🙁
If I weren’t so in love with Bill Gates (I have a poster of him above my bed), I would probably switch to Apple.
LOL Hacker. You trolls are hopeless.
Mac users are not vulnerable at all. As a matter of fact those other URI vulnerability are treated since a week already: it is just a matter of clicking an option on a user preference panel. There.
Do that on Windows Winblowjob sucker.
Im sorry but I see no point in having such an advanced search facility at all!
It is totally pointless!
Whataver happened to the slogan ‘less IS more’?
Oh – I forgot… APPLE has patented it!!
QUOTE: as long as mac cost 50% more then wintel
it doesn’t matter
what apple should do about the price is not compete head on
but do what Honda and Toyota does
place a small premium.
YOU TOTALLY DON’T UNDERSTAND APPLE’S MARKET AT ALL.
APPLE ARE NOT INTO THE KNOCK-IT-OUT CHEAP MARKET – WHY SHOULD THEY BE?
THERE IS AN OLD PHRASE ‘YOU PAY FOR WHAT U GET’!
If you want a crap pc buy a windows machine – if you want a quality, cutting edge product that won’t depreciate in value then YOU BUY AN APPLE PRODUCT!
Hey Seahawk, there is a security hole as bid as a crater in OS X.
Strident denials by you won’t make the slightest difference to the FACTS.
Get your head out of that sand, CRAPPLE ostritch, and smell the coffee!!
Pete Burrows : “If you want a crap pc buy a windows machine – if you want a quality, cutting edge product that won’t depreciate in value then YOU BUY AN APPLE PRODUCT!”
Oh I get it.
You mean “quality” CRAPPLE products like the CRAPLE laptops that spontanously combusted and starting burning due to a faulty product?
Yessiree.
CRAPPLE are indeede “quality” products.
Just make sure you bring along your fire extingishers that’s all!
LMAO!!!