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Thursday, July 01, 2004

Tiger, Longhorn search for desktop answers

CNET: "Microsoft and Apple Computer are searching for the same thing with their next operating systems: a better way to find stuff on an increasingly cluttered hard drive. The software makers have made scouring for information a top priority. In large part, that's because hard drives have continued to grow, stretching the limits of old ways of accessing information, such as looking through folders."

Related: Can you give us a preview of what search will be like on Longhorn? ... "WinFS is a database platform. It's a storage platform. Developers write new apps, those apps use schemas to describe the user's data and rely on the system repository to hold those items. Full-text search is just one thing that you can build on that. Much more important, IMO, is what the database guys call query and relations."

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