Apple may top Microsoft at the hard drive searches
2 July 2004
Apple appears ready to take the technological lead off Microsoft in terms of integrated hard drive and Web search technologies, Information Week reports.
Both companies share an aim to deliver technology that lets their customers search their hard drives and the Web using a single tool.
Mac OS 10.4 Tiger will offer its own powerful integrated search engine when it ships next year - a year ahead of Microsoft's likely release date for its forthcoming OS, Longhorn.
Analyst Tim Bajarin told Information Week: "Neither Apple nor Microsoft has said that this global hard-drive search is trivial. But it is clear if Apple delivers Tiger in the first half of '05, it's going to have quite a lead on Longhorn in that area."
In an upgrade to its OS X operating system, code-named Tiger and due next year, Apple plans to release technology called Spotlight that can scan a Mac's file system, plus indexes of documents' contents and metadata about their authorship and attributes.
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