“A series of emails between Microsoft developers in June 2004 has revealed how impressed they were by the new Tiger operating system that Apple had just previewed,” Simon Aughton reports for PC Pro. “The emails focus primarily on Tiger’s Spotlight search feature, and how far it was in advance of similar functionality in Microsoft’s Vista/Longhorn OS.”
“‘Tonight I got on corpnet, hooked up Mail.app to my Exchange server and then downloaded all of my mail into the local file store,’ wrote Microsoft’s Lenn Pryor, former Director of Platform Evangelism,” Aughton reports. “‘I did system wide queries against docs, contacts, apps, photos, music, and … my Microsoft email on a Mac. It was f***ing amazing. It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.'”
Aughton reports, “Jim Allchin co-president of the company’s Platform Products and Services Group was just as impressed. ‘I don’t believe we will have search this fast,’ he wrote.”
Aughton reports, “The Spotlight discussion is followed by some slightly bizarre bickering over Tiger install DVDs. ‘I hate to give up my DVDs, and I know Lenn [Pryor] doesn’t want to give it up either,’ wrote Vic Gundotra. ‘(If I send you mine, can you promise to get them back to me unscratched?)'”
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Microsoft is dying… has been for some time.
“I enjoy Real World computing so much I’ve recreated the office experience at home. Of course I have a nifty Dell running Windows. But I’ve added a water cooler, put a sign on my fridge warning that it will be cleaned out every Friday, added a sign on the Microwave asking users not to cook foods which might create unpleasant odors. All the furniture is office furniture, complete with cubicle partitions. Real World baby! Paradise on earth. Best of all I get to use a Real World computer, the kind Apple only wishes they could make.”
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zunewank, just exchange the word Microsoft for the word Microwave and you have it.
I certainly hope that Microsoft developers didn’t break any lisencing rules by installing OSX onto multiple computers in their office without purchasing them for each computer, or purchasing a family pack. Hee Hee.
R & D Stands for “RIPOFF and DUPLICATE”
Learned that when my kid was in the Cub Scouts …… didn’t realize the guy who told me that worked for Microsoft.
Once upon a time, was it not IBM who ruled corporate America, and the upstarts at Microsoft were storming the gates.
Uneasy rests the crown . . . . . .
Hmmmmmm, if I’m not mistaken, are they not guilty of theft? You can only install OS X on ONE machine from the same DVD.
Steve, send in the Feds.
I wonder if the Business Software Alliance, i.e. The MS Gestapo, will show any teeth (or balls) against MS.
This should be interesting…
macius
Not sure what’s happening with you. Spotlight is very fast on my 5-year old TI-book with only 1 gig of memory left. Of course, I only have a 30 gig drive.
The real world of corporate and enterprise IT cannot waste resources deploying
more than one deskttop platform.
Yet “real” IT has no problem finding resources to babysit, maintain, and generally fiddle-fsck around with certain platforms, all to keeep every desktop install virus-free and operable. How do modern cost-scraping corporations allow such inefficiency right in their own offices?
And BTW, what is that “one desktop platform”? Win 3.1? 95? 98? NT? XP? How about which release version (pro, consumer, media) and service-pack version of each? Which of the several Vistas will “real IT” consider?
What a fscking mess.
Three Microsoft engineers and three Apple employees are traveling by train to a computer conference. At the station, the three Microsoft engineers each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple employees buy only a single ticket.
“How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?” asks a Microsoft engineer.
“Watch and you’ll see,” answers the Apple employee . . . . —> Continues here.
I wish that mainstream media would pick up stories like this to show all the blind masses just how second rate their computing experience is on a Microshite PC.
Microsoft Windows Vista:
Your Potential (for exploitation), Our Passion (for profits).
@ Less is More
Old joke, fer sure … but THAT didnt stop me from
ROTFLMAO
Thanx, guy !!
@maclus
Yes. I do agree. You are crazy.
Seriously, I used to have problems with the search starting before I could get the entire word or phrase typed in, but that must have been fixed with one of the updates. I like it and certainly have no complaints about the speed. as it is sorting through a fair number of files.
When M$ gets Apple devices and software it is like getting a flying saucer from Roswell. M$ can only back-engineer the advanced technology of Apple.
No. 1: What’s that stench?
No. 2: Oh, nothing noxious, just the vapors of mediocrity and ineptitude emanating from Redmond.
No. 1: No, really it’s quite foul! It makes me nauseous.
No. 2: Hmm, maybe you’re onto something here. Perhaps the great beast is suffering chronic necrotizing cerebellitis. Notice the how the tongue protrudes from the mouth like some slimy alien being. Also, perceive the dull look and the lack of responsiveness to stimuli. Consider too the incoherent repetitive speech patterns and inappropriate social behaviors. We have a very difficult case here.
No. 1: Well, what do we do?
No. 2: I don’t know about you, but I’m buying a Mac.
Hmmm, since everyone is MS bashing, let me throw this in. I just got it from CNET.
Note how everyone is Bashing Apple and Steve for the stock back dating issue????
Well, it seems that MS has done it too.
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“From 1992 through 1999, Microsoft Corp. awarded employees
options that were retroactively keyed to its stock’s monthly lows.
Annual awards were given in July, at that month’s low point.
Awards to new employees were given at the lowest closing price
during the month after they were hired.
Microsoft disclosed and ended the practice in 1999, taking a
$217 million charge. The revelation raised nary an eyebrow.
“When Microsoft said it had to restate its earnings for
backdating, the reaction of the market was ho-hum,” Koenen
said.
Microsoft’s motivation appeared innocent, Rosen said.
Evening out the rewards
“They were saying, ‘Well, look, someone comes to work here and
the stock is $17 and someone comes two days later and it’s $24.
They both do the same job and get the same number of options.
Let’s try to even this out and we’ll just give everybody who
comes that month the lowest price of the month.’ “
Last month, Microsoft said in a statement that its practice “did
not involve ‘backdating’ as we understand that term is being
used in current reports of investigations of other companies”
and said it believed its approach was legal.”