I was also disappointed by the article, but I think it was the article. Things like email prioritization (aka priority inbox, so google and microsoft do share s

I was also disappointed by the article, but I think it was the article. Things like email prioritization (aka priority inbox, so google and microsoft do share something there) are hard problems, and shouldn't be trivialized any more than someone making huge advances in UI and ease of use should be, but I was hoping for some hint at long shots as well. > It could be that the author cherry picked examples that were easy for the average reader to understand. If not, another example of companies that are really big thinking really small. I think it might be partly that and partly the author not understanding the subject well enough. He apparently writes on the bits blog, and some of his other articles don't seem too bad, but this example didn't really do much for my confidence in him: Microsoft is hardly alone among old-line tech companies in injecting Big Data into its products. Later this year, Hewlett-Packard will showcase printers that connect to the Internet and store documents, which can later be searched for new information. If we're charitable, they only thing I can come up with is meaning storing a very large corpus and searching over it, but put like that, it isn't very cutting edge, and what do printers have to do with it?