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...
Mar 3, 2007 | Outlook, search, WinXP
Windows Desktop Search 3.01 is a brand new release of Microsoft’s tool for indexing mail and documents for instant searches on Windows XP. There were some growing pains as they prepared this version, but the new release addresses everything on my mind.The web...
Dec 20, 2006 | search, Vista
My first impression was that the Vista developers had left Vista in a crippled state, unable to index shared network folders, but apparently they were just running late. Today Microsoft released a Vista-compatible add-in for Windows Desktop Search for indexing mapped...
Dec 13, 2006 | network, search, Vista
EDIT: On December 19, Microsoft released an add-in to index files on network shares in Windows Vista. See this comment.ORIGINAL POST:Windows Vista cannot index files on a network share. It cannot do instant searches for text in files stored on a network server.This is...
