I was thinking about this the other day.
I can’t see the point, desktop search is a solved problem.
Yes Windows find is shit, but it doesn’t have to be.
I know a bunch of the conspiracies, but what is the legitimate use case?
I was thinking about this the other day.
I can’t see the point, desktop search is a solved problem.
Yes Windows find is shit, but it doesn’t have to be.
I know a bunch of the conspiracies, but what is the legitimate use case?
It’s basically an enhanced “undo” button. If everything that has happened in the last x minutes is recorded and suddenly a computer stops working or a file goes missing or a data breach happens, you can easily undo the change.
Alternately, there is speculation that it’s being marketed to companies to gain visibility into repetitive tasks to help automate them as well as to crack down on employees who just wiggle their mouse every so often to keep the monitor on or whatever people do to pretend to be busy during the 5 seconds they get free after months of in uncompensated extra work they put in.
Just use powershell to make a down cursor keypress every few minutes and put the screen on a long work-related webpage article like a normal programmer under surveillance…
I’m sure large businesses are doing exactly that. It’s one of the first things I thought of - if you and I can think of it, you know Corp is already on it.