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   Nicholas Buenk to Lefty Bigfoot   
   Re: Windows Vista Imitates Mac OS X Feat   
   07 Jan 06 14:59:05   
   
   XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: morn@tpg.com.au   
      
   Lefty Bigfoot wrote:   
   > Tim Smith wrote   
   > (in article   
   > ):   
   >   
   >   
   >>In article <0001HW.BFE3510700A14AB9F0386550@news.verizon.net>,   
   >> Lefty Bigfoot  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>* Global, fast search. Vista can now find words in any of your files,   
   >>>>quickly and easily, just like the Spotlight feature of Mac OS X.   
   >>>   
   >>>Wow.  I wonder where they got that idea?   
   >>   
   >>They had it before Apple did.  Apple just got it into a *released*   
   >>product first.   
   >   
   >   
   > IOW, Apple got there first.  Announcing and idea and getting it   
   > working properly are too different things.   
   >   
   > I hereby announce the ray gun and the home-size teleporter and   
   > personal holodeck entertainment system will be shipping real   
   > soon now.  If anyone beats me to the market with them, they're   
   > ripping me off.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Having the idea first counts for something.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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