Google Desktop Search.
The lid is lifted off yet another Google futureOS component. It works like Google, user familiarity makes a lot of sense - score 1 point. It works better than the poxy standard search capabilities of Windows which, admittedly ain't exactly hard - score another point. It provides a simple but powerful search capability today, not after 2006 when (chargeable upgrade) Windows Longhorn finally shows up and then 2007 when WinFS gets round to it - score 2 points. It's free - score one point. It works - score 1 point.
I could go on. What with Apple totally owning the pocket hard disk player market with reportedly 92% of all sales in that sector, Google offering free and platform indepenent (OK, Picasa, Toolbar are Windows only, and GDS is Windows 2000/XP only - thus far) apps, you can't help but get the impression that MS domination has well and truly topped out now (actually, probably a few months ago), and is now slowly but surely and progressively being eaten away and the notion of what the operating system is dismantled and transposed to a new paradigm.
What next? A browser based document editor integrated into Gmail. A web based database environment?
The lid is lifted off yet another Google futureOS component. It works like Google, user familiarity makes a lot of sense - score 1 point. It works better than the poxy standard search capabilities of Windows which, admittedly ain't exactly hard - score another point. It provides a simple but powerful search capability today, not after 2006 when (chargeable upgrade) Windows Longhorn finally shows up and then 2007 when WinFS gets round to it - score 2 points. It's free - score one point. It works - score 1 point.
I could go on. What with Apple totally owning the pocket hard disk player market with reportedly 92% of all sales in that sector, Google offering free and platform indepenent (OK, Picasa, Toolbar are Windows only, and GDS is Windows 2000/XP only - thus far) apps, you can't help but get the impression that MS domination has well and truly topped out now (actually, probably a few months ago), and is now slowly but surely and progressively being eaten away and the notion of what the operating system is dismantled and transposed to a new paradigm.
What next? A browser based document editor integrated into Gmail. A web based database environment?