Feb 13, 2008 | Home_Server, search, Vista
Windows Home Server includes Windows Desktop Search 3.1 – connecting remotely to the WHS shows it sitting down on the toolbar. It’s not obvious why it’s there – you’d never do a search directly on the WHS console, right? It turns out to...
Feb 12, 2008 | Office, search, Vista, WinXP
If you are using Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Desktop Search 3.1, then you should install a small update to the search program. The “2007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack” will allow Windows Desktop Search to index the new file formats...
Feb 7, 2008 | Microsoft, Office, OneNote, search, software
I’ve written before about Microsoft OneNote 2007 but it bears repeating: this is the best program you’ve never heard of. OneNote collects your notes and lets you find them later. It keeps anything you want to put into it – scraps of information, web...
Nov 30, 2007 | Internet, search, security
Google has just purged its index of thousands of malware sites that were being displayed in results lists for hundreds of innocuous search phrases. It’s a quick end to a huge attack that could have caused a global uproar. The criminals registered tens of...
Nov 6, 2007 | Microsoft, search
Microsoft is finalizing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, a free product for searching files on network servers. It has the potential to fill a need for many small businesses, especially law firms drowning in documents.Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express was...
Mar 11, 2007 | Microsoft, OneCare, Outlook, search, software
Patches/updates/upgrades are a mess. That’s nothing new, and certainly some steps forward have been taken – Microsoft’s automatic update system works remarkably well. Many of the updates are necessary and important, but it makes it impossible to...
