Unfortunately, that speed comes at a cost??”namely, that your searches may
be out-of-date or incomplete, and you won??™t even know it. In some cases,
you can search a folder full of JPEG images for *.jpg and get absolutely
nothing, or worse, a partial listing with no warning that it may be incomplete.
And when you do get the search results you want, there??™s no telling
whether or not your favorite Details columns will be present since Vista
seems incapable of saving your preferences from one session to the next.
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In short, the new Search feature shows promise, but its competence is limited
by a company that values marketable features over usable ones.
Hundreds of design decisions are made this way. Take content protection,
Vista??™s copy-protection initiative for so-called ???premium content??? like highdefinition
movies from Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs. According to
Microsoft??™s standards, software and hardware manufacturers are supposed
to disable ???premium content??? across all interfaces that don??™t provide copy
protection. One such interface is the S/PDIF digital audio port??”usually in
the form of a TOSlink optical plug??”that comes on most high-end audio
cards. Since S/PDIF doesn??™t support copy protection??”meaning that you
could theoretically plug it into another PC and rip the soundtrack off an HD
movie??”Vista requires that your TOSlink plug be disabled whenever you
play back that HD movie on your PC.
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