“If you’re part of the ‘other 90 percent,’ you might have had a bit of Mac envy if you read my recent review of Apple’s new Tiger operating system. Windows users take heart. All is not lost,” Larry Magid writes for CBS News. “I praised Apple’s new Spotlight feature that allows users to quickly find any file, email message, contact, image or application based on any word or phrase contained in the document.”
“I pointed out that there are a number of Windows programs that perform similar functions but added, ‘because Spotlight is integral to the Mac operating system, it is not only faster than those Windows add-on products; it’s also more elegant and easier to use.’ What I wrote was true, but just because the PC products aren’t quite as good as what is now available for the Mac, doesn’t mean they aren’t worth trying out,” Magid writes.
Magid then covers Google search and Copernic in a sad (if you’re a Windows-only user) article designed to help Windows users attempt to “be like a Mac,” just as Windows itself strives so hard, but fails so miserably, to do. Which might have been Magid’s point all along.
Magid concludes, “while none of these programs is quite as good as Apple’s Spotlight, they’re all pretty good which, considering the price, isn’t so bad. Of course, Microsoft plans to offer a well-integrated desktop search program in the next version of Windows, but don’t search for a copy of that program anytime soon. It’s not scheduled to be released until Christmas 2006.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: This is the funniest article we’ve read in quite some time. This piece for Windows patchers ought to have been titled “Bondo for Windows!” and subtitled, “How to pretend you have Mac OS X Tiger’s Spotlight, just not as good (but you’re used to that).”
What about all the rest of Mac OS X Tiger? How can Windows users perform “similar functions,” but with slower, inelegant, and harder-to-use solutions?
We’ve got some real news for Windows users. Contrary to what Magid writes, all actually is lost. Enough already! You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. Get a Mac. Don’t you deserve the best? Are you somehow unworthy of having the world’s most advanced operating system? If it makes you feel better, just add a Mac to your computing arsenal – it’ll talk to your Windows PC just fine. You can decide later if you feel like continuing to use the Windows PC anymore. Just stop trying to fake it to save three bucks, it’s pitiful.
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