Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes
by Someone1234 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:04PM
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Search on Windows is almost impressive in its "badness."
And I'd love to say it is a recent development (or "bug") but Windows search has been junk for many years and releases. I mean they themselves must know something is wrong since they tried to reboot it in the failed Vista offshoot (WinFS in Longhorn[0]) using a relational database instead of their current index. But since that failed, they just stuck with it and kept piling on failed concepts to a broken core.
Windows 8/8.1's web search took something inherently unreliable and tacked on a web search. Windows 10 tacked on a personal assistant. But often all people want is a reliable way to search file metadata (name, date, author, etc), file content, and misc OS constructs (Settings/Control Panel Applets, Shortcuts, etc). It gets none of that right.
If I was in charge of the Windows division I'd fire the entire search team, and bring in a fresh set of eyes. There's something dysfunctional in a division that can consistently put out such poor software.
And I'd love to say it is a recent development (or "bug") but Windows search has been junk for many years and releases. I mean they themselves must know something is wrong since they tried to reboot it in the failed Vista offshoot (WinFS in Longhorn[0]) using a relational database instead of their current index. But since that failed, they just stuck with it and kept piling on failed concepts to a broken core.
Windows 8/8.1's web search took something inherently unreliable and tacked on a web search. Windows 10 tacked on a personal assistant. But often all people want is a reliable way to search file metadata (name, date, author, etc), file content, and misc OS constructs (Settings/Control Panel Applets, Shortcuts, etc). It gets none of that right.
If I was in charge of the Windows division I'd fire the entire search team, and bring in a fresh set of eyes. There's something dysfunctional in a division that can consistently put out such poor software.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS