Re: PATCH for Search in folders (was Re: [Usability] Some usability feedback)

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 17:39, Alan Horkan wrote:

> Before changing from Search to Find I would be interested to find out why
> Microsoft changed from Find to Search, perhaps it is because so often you
> search but do not actually find what you are looking for?

I don't know the answer to that, but it's possibly because they're still interested in a subtle distinction between "Find" and "Search" that we've decided to overlook because it's often lost in translation.  That is, Find traditionally finds things in-place, one at a time, in the window you have open, but Search comes back with a full list of results potentially gleaned from multiple locations.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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