RSSWindows Desktop Search Loses Toolbar
By Nate Mook | Published November 15, 2005, 10:18 AM
At the IT Forum in Barcelona Tuesday, Microsoft took the wraps off a version of Windows Desktop Search without the MSN Toolbar, which is designed specially for deployment in businesses. The application replaces Windows' paltry built-in search functionality and can be integrated with Office and SharePoint.
Windows Desktop Search indexes a variety of file types, e-mail, and even documents across the network in order to provide a single starting point for searches. Aside from dropping the toolbar, Microsoft has added improved installation and management functionality.
"These new enterprise-class enhancements to the desktop search capabilities we introduced last spring will empower IT professionals to deliver higher productivity, lower IT management costs and greater ease of use throughout their organizations," said Christopher Payne, corporate vice president of MSN Search.
Starting next year, Microsoft plans to expand the capabilities of Windows Desktop Search through its new Windows Live offering. This means developers could build online applications that integrate with the search tool on the client side.
Windows Desktop Search is a free download for all businesses. To allay privacy fears, Microsoft says, "These products have been designed to respect the privacy of multiple users on a single PC by utilizing the Windows authentication and user account management infrastructure."
And at the very top of Microsoft's Add-ins page, they provide a link to the new filter for indexing StarOffice/OpenOffice documents. At the bottom of the list is a beta for indexing the contents of Thunderbird/Mozilla/Eudora mailboxes.
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This was the right move.
Disassociate yourself from everything MSN, Microsoft, and you are on the winning path.
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Check you what's new in Windows Desktop Search Enterprise edition
http://labnol.blogspot.c...ows-desktop-search.html
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Ever since Live.com came out, it seems that MSN days are numbered.
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As a brand, yep. But in reality, all current MSN services will just become Windows Live services. So MSN and its offerings will live on, just with a new name.
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Indeed.
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