After reading this page at ARSTechnica on the technical underpinnings of the Spotlight Search facility and FSEvents on Mac OXS X, I get an email notification on a post written by Amit on a fix for Windows Vista Search Indexer.
Coincidence?
It’s just too bad I don’t have a working copy of Windows Vista installed on my home PC computers (they’re still running on Windows XP Professional) as I would love doing a proper comparison of both search technologies.
All I can say for sure now is that Spotlight Search far outstrips the Search tool on Windows XP in terms of performance, utility and usability.
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I would just like it if I could use spotlight on both platforms, so I could be at my desktop in Vista, and still search for stuff on either of my MBP, or my iMac, using their native search over network spotlight functionality. I hate windows search and how it indexes. If there was just a simple Spotlight compatible search tool that could run and search in vista, and access other OSX devices indexes as well.