“A series of emails between Microsoft developers in June 2004 has revealed how impressed they were by the new Tiger operating system that Apple had just previewed,” Simon Aughton reports for PC Pro. “The emails focus primarily on Tiger’s Spotlight search feature, and how far it was in advance of similar functionality in Microsoft’s Vista/Longhorn OS.”
“‘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,’ wrote Microsoft’s Lenn Pryor, former Director of Platform Evangelism,” Aughton reports. “‘I did system wide queries against docs, contacts, apps, photos, music, and … my Microsoft email on a Mac. It was f***ing amazing. It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.'”
Aughton reports, “Jim Allchin co-president of the company’s Platform Products and Services Group was just as impressed. ‘I don’t believe we will have search this fast,’ he wrote.”
Aughton reports, “The Spotlight discussion is followed by some slightly bizarre bickering over Tiger install DVDs. ‘I hate to give up my DVDs, and I know Lenn [Pryor] doesn’t want to give it up either,’ wrote Vic Gundotra. ‘(If I send you mine, can you promise to get them back to me unscratched?)'”
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So, they were installing Tiger on mutliple machines from one DVD?? You mean, they were pirating?
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Mofiasoft is guilty of all deadly sins
1. Pride
2. Envy
3. Anger
4. Avarice
5. Sadness
6. Gluttony
7. Lust
Microsoft must account for 20% of the worldwide annual photocopying industry revenues. No wonder their R & D budget is so huge. It’s mostly in toner, paper and copier repair.
Are Rabies and Sweating a deadly sin? If so, make it nine.
Microsoft are also morally responsible for marketing an insecure product and for the consequences of that. Adding a little surface flash in the form of (poorly) copied features won’t fix that.
It’s reported that a *quarter* of the world’s PCs are compromised and being used for crime in botnets. That’s pandemic proportions:
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/84342
The Ballmers, Enderles, and Thurrotts can pretend not to notice this situation for all they’re worth, but Microsoft deserves obloquy heaped on it for that.
Microsoft and R&D in the same sentence ? That’s called an oxy moron.
Seriously, Microsoft does have an awesome R&D Dept. It’s located at 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino Ca.
I’ve never used Microsoft products and have never been happier
“If I send you mine, can you promise to get them back to me unscratched?)” Good to see piracy is alive and well in the crapville, WA.
Mofiasoft is guilty of all deadly sins
1. Pride
2. Envy
3. Anger
4. Avarice
5. Sadness
6. Gluttony
7. Lust
You missed:
8. Criminal business practises
9. Theft
10. Lying
11. Cheating
12. Fraud
Magic Word: congress. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
They probably have screen shots of Leopard up on a board and are trying their hardest to emulate it for Vista SP-1 like they did with iTunes and Winblows Media Player.
Hmmmmmm, if I’m not mistaken, are they not guilty of theft? You can only install OS X on ONE machine from the same DVD.
Steve, send in the Feds.
MW: problem, as in Redmond, we have a…
These emails show the importance of Microsoft to the real world of enterprise I.T.
Microsoft investigates and discovers all the useful features that would otherwise
get lost in Apple’s little used operating system — expands and improves those
features — and then brings them to the real world or corporate and enterprise
information technology, for the benefit of American industry, and office workers
everywhere.
Too bad after extending Apple’s few useful features it doesn’t extinguish it too.
Looking at it this way it’s obvious that Microsoft is doing the useful innovations.
The real world of corporate and enterprise IT cannot waste resources deploying
more than one deskttop platform.
The past, the present, and the future of enterprise IT belongs only to Windows.
These emails show the importance of Microsoft to the real world of enterprise I.T.
Microsoft investigates and discovers all the useful features that would otherwise
get lost in Apple’s little used operating system — expands and improves those
features — and then brings them to the real world or corporate and enterprise
information technology, for the benefit of American industry, and office workers
everywhere.
Too bad after extending Apple’s few useful features it doesn’t extinguish it too.
Looking at it this way it’s obvious that Microsoft is doing the useful innovations.
The real world of corporate and enterprise IT cannot waste resources deploying
more than one deskttop platform.
The past, the present, and the future of enterprise IT belongs only to Windows.
These emails show the importance of Microsoft to the real world of enterprise I.T.
Microsoft investigates and discovers all the useful features that would otherwise
get lost in Apple’s little used operating system — expands and improves those
features — and then brings them to the real world or corporate and enterprise
information technology, for the benefit of American industry, and office workers
everywhere.
Too bad after extending Apple’s few useful features it doesn’t extinguish it too.
Looking at it this way it’s obvious that Microsoft is doing the useful innovations.
The real world of corporate and enterprise IT cannot waste resources deploying
more than one deskttop platform.
The past, the present, and the future of enterprise IT belongs only to Windows.
Very nice to see Microsoft management has no regard when it comes to obeying Apple’s software licensing, yet they want all of us to honor theirs? Well, I’ll remember that the next time I decide to pirate a piece of Microsoft software then.
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Of course enterprise belongs to Microsoft. Enterprise IT is run by Microsoft Certified IT professionals.
But get this, Microsoft not only gets their troops in on the ground floor where purchase and deployment decisions are made, they get the stupid bastards to pay for their own brainwashing and training.
You’d think that to gain this stranglehold on enterprise the least Microsoft could do would be to give the brainwashing sessions out free for the asking.
The comedian above says:
“The real world of corporate and enterprise IT cannot waste resources deploying more than one deskttop (sic.) platform.”
He’s right. the corporate world wastes time and resources SUPPORTING that desktop platform. Great spelling, by the way.
lol @ troll. This was great:
“and then brings them to the real world or corporate and enterprise
information technology, for the benefit of American industry, and office workers everywhere.”
Man, I wish I lived in the “real world.” Instead I’m stuck here in fantasy land on my Mac. I wish I worked in the corporate and enterprise information technology… oh wait, I do.
Microsoft is doing what Apple can’t do: Real Worl gets it. Thank you for making clear what these Apple lemmings can’t seem to grasp: The Real World is Windows. Good thing too. Stand your ground, enterprise IT!
I enjoy Real World computing so much I’ve recreated the office experience at home. Of course I have a nifty Dell running Windows. But I’ve added a water cooler, put a sign on my fridge warning that it will be cleaned out every Friday, added a sign on the Microwave asking users not to cook foods which might create unpleasant odors. All the furniture is office furniture, complete with cubicle partitions. Real World baby! Paradise on earth. Best of all I get to use a Real World computer, the kind Apple only wishes they could make.
Your potential. Our passion.
I´m sure workers at Ford envy the Porsche.
I´m sure workers at Chevy envy the Ferrari.
I´m sure the local Pizza joint envies the guy that owns all the Pizza Huts.
I´m sure people in 3rd world countries envy what others have.
Doesn´t it happen with everything everywhere everyday an…
So what.
Corporate and enterprise IT is actually the fake world. Which is why Apple has little interest in electronic office tedium.
Anyone who touts corporate business and enterprise as “real” and relegates everything else irrelevent is guilty of exactly the reasons modern civilization has thrown itself into an endless cycle of slavery to the system.
Corporate electronic tedium drones can stick with their precious Microsoft® Blunt Stick™ systems and software for all I care.
Apple puts power into the hands of the people.
“I hate to give up my DVDs, and I know Lenn [Pryor] doesn’t want to give it up either,’ wrote Vic Gundotra. ‘(If I send you mine, can you promise to get them back to me unscratched?)”
Are people at Microsoft “sharing” (aka pirating) Apple OS software? With all the Activation “features” in MS Products, you’d think they would know better…
I still love the email from “Allchin” I’d buy a mac if I didnt work for MS,,
since he is retiring soon, MDN’s should put together a retirement fund for a new Mac for Mr. Allchin !!
I would gladly donate $10.00 towards it
Microsoft’s hold on corporate America is being loosened. Corporations are realizing that they can get similar if not better functionality from other sources, and that they do not have to beholden themselves to Microsoft’s pricing, required upgraded, etc. They also are sick and tired of Microsoft’s idea of security, which allows viruses, malware, and all sorts of other crap to be installed onto their PCs. Then comes the bills for all the service, upgrading, training, support, and other problems that go along with Windows.
You’re already seeing corporations and government agencies demanding open standards for documents, options in operating systems, etc. Corporations won’t stand for this type of “service” for long, and Microsoft has opened the door for other companies to take market share by offering products that do similar tasks as Windows, Outlook, etc.
The real shame is that Apple isn’t developing a corporate-level Outlook challenger. That is the number one issue that companies seem to point to when justifying why they won’t switch to Macs.
I have to say that I am most disappointed by spotlight. It has a lot of potentail, but for me it’s just too slow. Am I crazy? Does anyone else think so?