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I’m still stunned at how bad Windows search is. They’ve been trying to get this right since they begun development of Windows Vista nearly 20 years ago. Meanwh

I’m still stunned at how bad Windows search is. They’ve been trying to get this right since they begun development of Windows Vista nearly 20 years ago. Meanwhile in OS X land, their 16-year-old search implementation has always been so good that in a lot of cases, the file manager isn’t necessary to find even the most obscure and poorly organized documents.

bmn__ 6y ago
> They’ve been trying to get this right Company politics interfered with the work on database as file system, one of Longhorn's greater ideas. I can't remember the specifics, it's on Slashdot somewhere, can't find it anymore. > their 16-year-old search implementation … is Giampaolo's 22-year-old implementation. http://enwp.org/Dominic_Giampaolo http://enwp.org/Dominic_Giampaolo https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-b...