PC Pro: News: Microsoft emails reveal Tiger envy
‘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. ‘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.’
Of course, publicly, Vista is a 100% OS X *not* inspired product. It is only too bad that MS couldn’t/wouldn’t do the things they needed to do to make “Cairo” a reality. Their size, and their inability to shake off legacy requirements/obligations, may doom them.
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.
….and you won’t. If you are stuck updating your five year old OS (XP) to look and act, and hopefully function like a 2+ year old OS, you are always going to be behind the curve.
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