Find, Use, and Share Information: Products
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Products for an Information Sharing Solution

Microsoft offers a comprehensive and integrated platform of business information management tools that empower your people to make better business decisions, be more productive, and achieve greater success. The following products help people to find, use, and share information more quickly, easily, and securely.

The way people find and use information can be either a core strength or a major weakness of your business. Windows Vista will dramatically improve how people in your organization use your essential business knowledge and resources. From the Start menu and throughout the entire operating system, search is an integral function of Windows Vista, helping people find and use information quickly, easily, and more securely in more places: on personal computers, in e-mail, on corporate servers, and on the Internet. Windows Vista is at the heart of many competitive organizations' information technology (IT) investments. It empowers people to work more efficiently; helps teams collaborate and communicate more effectively, regardless of their location; helps IT managers to lower costs and increase security; and improves your organization's ability to comply with reporting and regulatory requirements.

Windows Vista

The 2007 Office system is an integrated suite of information worker products that will help you and your organization work more efficiently and effectively with a new set of powerful tools for creating, managing, analyzing, and sharing information. The newly redesigned user interface makes it easier for people to use Microsoft Office applications to deliver better results faster, and the new graphics capabilities make creating great-looking, high-impact documents a snap, for better information sharing. The 2007 Microsoft Office system?it's all about helping you create and deliver results, which translates to greater productivity for your people and organization.

2007 Microsoft Office System

Office SharePoint Server 2007 improves organizational effectiveness by providing one unified suite of enterprise-scale applications that satisfies diverse business-critical needs, such as managing content and business processes, simplifying how people work together across boundaries, and enabling better informed decision-making. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all the intranets, extranets, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, so your IT people will not have to rely on separate, fragmented systems.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Information is scattered across the Web, on different computers, devices, intranets, servers, and in databases. In order to be productive, people need to have access to that information wherever they are working?in the office, on the road, or at home. Windows Search helps you find the precise information you need from your desktop, from the intranet, from line-of-business applications, or from the Internet?with a single search. Windows Search provides fast and powerful previews and visualizations of your data before you take action. It federates results from the Internet, desktop, and intranet into a single view.

Windows Search

Windows Desktop Search software helps your people find and retrieve e-mail, calendar appointments, photos, documents, and more from the Windows desktop, Microsoft Outlook, or Internet Explorer. They can search their computers and the corporate network as easily as they search the Web. Search results are displayed in a familiar Windows interface, so end users can quickly preview, filter, and access files in their native applications, or launch applications directly from results, to more easily make business insights. Windows Desktop Search searches the content of documents (even when they are included as an e-mail attachment) and the metadata information in the titles of music, image, and video files, in addition to program executable files?but does not index sensitive data such as temporary Internet files and caches, to help protect privacy. For greater security, IT managers can use Windows Desktop Search Group Policy settings to control what end users can index, search, retrieve, or launch.

Windows Desktop Search

Your people can use the new Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search to quickly and easily deploy an enterprise-grade search solution today and upgrade to the full complement of Office SharePoint Server 2007 functionalities in the future. A security-enhanced, scalable, extensible, and manageable search solution, Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search meets the core search needs of enterprises while offering the simplicity and ease of use desired by small and medium-sized businesses, to help you increase productivity and alleviate information overload. Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search searches content in common data repositories, including file shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Microsoft Exchange Server public folders, and Lotus Notes databases. You can extend it to search other repositories using third-party or customer-built connectors, and you can upgrade it to the full Office SharePoint Server 2007 offering.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search


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