Apple Previews Next Version of Mac OS X

Said would include powerful search features to trounce Windows

[christopher w]

Well - Apple is now in the search game with Spotlight...

[iht.com...]
From Reuters:

Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) on Monday previewed the next version of its Mac OS X (news - web sites) operating system, which it said would include powerful search features that would put it far ahead of the next major update to Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) market-leading Windows software.

Apple's search technology, which it calls Spotlight, lets Mac users find any file, document or information created by any application on a Macintosh (news - web sites) by entering the query in a search at the upper right hand corner of the desktop.

Simplifying the search process on a PC's hard drive has emerged as one of the major goals of both Tiger and Microsoft's next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, which is due out in 2006.

"What they've (Apple) done with search is a key element of Longhorn," said analyst Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies, adding that Apple's next version of OS X, code-named Tiger, will be available to consumers at least a year or more before Longhorn.

Tiger will be available in the first half of 2005, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs (news - web sites) said, and will cost $129.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 9:20 pm (utc) on June 29, 2004]

[andy_boyd]

Spotlight sounds cool ... BeOS-style metadata on Mac OS X! :)

[gmiller]

I read on the sqlite-users mailing list that Tiger incorporates SQLite. I've found SQLite to be a *really* nice package for many purposes.

[your_store]

Well this picture pretty much summed it up for me:

[padawan.info...]

Even non-Mac lovers should get a chuckle out of the above link.