Posts by steve

Microsoft waves updated Maps, Hotmail at customers

One up to MS?

Out in the midst of nowhere, (Shropshire actually), Google maps have my estate in 1999, and until very recently couldn't even be bothered with the same image resolution as the rest of the country gets.

At least Live maps show 2006, which is about as up to date as anything Microsoft puts out.

Rivals torture consumers via Microsoft

re Desktop Search = Gimmick

Many posts here are confusing the search for files (if you can't remember where you left it then it's probably your fault!), and searching for content. I may need to search through hundreds of properly named files in a well structured directory for some information that may appear in several of the files, I just don't know which ones - yes I do need a decent search facility.