longhorn search feature

hmm, looks like i seen this before......

http://www.winsupersite.com/files/winhec2005_desktop_search.wmv

sorry about it being a wmv video, but doesn't this look very like spotlight?

the guy even uses the "boom" word the same way steve did when demoing tiger

also...
Did anyone notice the mac-esk may the window appears. Looks like Bill is really working hard at making things look good, and why not follow the market leader in that respect.

they also copied the mac scale effect by the looks of it because the genie effect is patented?

and the ability for slow motion

he is trying to make it look nice to hide the fact that it is still windows :black:

hmmm looks like spotlight also sounds a little like our good friend jobs

I'm actually looking forward to longhorn. Thanks for the video!

We will be the first to upgrade when Longhorn is released!!!.....But by then, I will already have my ibook, and my parents will use the PC.

WOW... an instant search function! Way to go M$ for "coming up" with that one! No OTHER operating system does that...

Man those guys at Micro$oft are SO imaginative and just plain old creative! They just pull a rabbit out of the hat and never copy anyone else...

To be completely fair, fast metadata search ("Spotlight") was first implemented in an operating system called BeOS, from Be, Inc. Apple almost bought Be, but instead acquired NeXT.

In some ways, BeOS was more advanced than OS X is today.

I don't mind Longhorn. If Apple is to improve its products, it needs viable competition. And I hope they put a comprehensive security architecture in this one; it'll make life better for all of us.

I have a beta of Longhorn, and i can only say it is like a tarted up XP, but thats what tiger is as well right? I mean, yes its still windows, but windows is great for some things, and so is X, i'm not the kind of person who says 'I'm not even using that, its windows...'
Obviously i prefer X, otherwise i'd be posting on windows forums.......
Thanks
Alex

it did look like spotlight, then again, when has M$ ever come up with something original, except for crashing, and sucking in general, it doesn't matter how many of tiger's features they attempt to copy, bottom line is that its still windows, and always will be.

Apple gets the best compliments from Microsoft it's called "imitation"

I think M$ if they really want to try to catch up with Mac, they have to start over again with their operating system and go 'nix.

iNAP said:

Apple gets the best compliments from Microsoft it's called "imitation"

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That is so true, "best form of flatering is imitation" or something like that, i forget the exact words to almost all quotes all the time.

By the time 'Longhorn' ships, Apple will be onto something better. Apple's is so much more refined, even now, being that is a little inconspicuous app that runs wherever, and is accessible ALL THE TIME. Microsoft is too late to the party.