Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search

Why is a dog asking me questions? Who's been putting the mescaline in the Microsoft kool aid? What if google used this approach? Would google still be number one?

So you'd like to search for something! Do you know where you last saw it? Yes or No Is it bigger than a breadbox? Or smaller Is it animal, mineral or vegetable? Maybe you should buy a personal organiser! Then you won't keep losing things. Did you check under the bed? ©2004 Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages

Unless Microsoft can correct this wrong-headed approach to search, WinFS promises to be so over-engineered as to be completely unusable.

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