Tewha » spotlight http://tewha.net Writings and links on iPhone and iPad programming Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:26:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Search should be fast http://tewha.net/2008/05/search-should-be-fast/ http://tewha.net/2008/05/search-should-be-fast/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 17:05:41 +0000 Steven Fisher http://tewha.net/?p=516 Continue reading →]]> Via The Macalope, Microsoft’s leaked reaction to Mac OS X’s new search capabilities:

Lenn Pryor:

You will have to take Vic’s disk…I am not giving mine up. ;) 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. I did system wide queries against docs, contacts, apps, photos, music, and my Microsoft email on a Mac. It was f*cking amazing. It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.

Jim Allchin:

Yes. I know. It is hard to take. I don’t believe we will have search this fast.

The funny part for me as I read this is that they’re talking about Mac OS X 10.4 search. Mac OS X 10.4′s search worked, but it was very slow. Yet apparently, even that blew away what they had.

Still, it isn’t all bad for Microsoft: It looks like they at least realized the speed of search was important.

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