The year is 2002, I am sitting in front of a computer that 10 years ago would have filled a large bunker and could model the aftershocks of a thermonuclear explosion and I want to find something on this computer.
I have two choices: I can use ‘Start:search:for files or folders’ or I can type something into a browser window. The first will clunk and whir and a couple of seconds later will search the few thousand file names on the computer but will not search the contents of those files. The second will fully search over 3 billion files from other computers and return the answer within 0.2 seconds.
Microsoft Windows is badly designed.