I don't mind using search on other people's systems.
Indeed, I expect to have to use it when helping others find what they're looking for.
I'm not as comfortable or adept with the search in W7 as I was with XP. That Search 4.0 upgrade MS pushed several years ago really threw me for a loop. Both it and the W7 search don't seem as flexible or have the same filtering capabilties as XP. I'm sure it's more a training issue, but what I want to do isn't apparent. That's not a W8-specific issue; it's the concept that I should rely on search for daily navigation that rubs me wrong.
I has a user once, a QA engineer who had good reason to take multiple pictures of product defects. He understood the value of storing them where they would be backed up, but he'd upload the photos to directories named:
AAA
AAAAA
AAAAAAAB
AAAABBBB
AAAZZZ
ZZZ
There were HUNDREDS of these in his network share when he left. Of course, the individual photos still had the camera-generated file names. Per procedure, I burned DVDs of his files and turned them over to his supervisor. The QA department spent a couple of days trying to figure them out, questioned my ability to burn a DVD until I showed the original directory, and then soon abandoned the attempt to get any value from the data.
