| | Windows Search | | | Microsoft Windows Search, which consists of built-in search and organization features in Windows Vista, Windows Search for Windows XP, and the latest version for your desktop—Windows Search 4.0 Preview, provides an easy and comprehensive solution for finding and organizing the content you care about, no matter where it lives.
Key benefits include:
Great User Experience: Familiar yet powerful user interface for instantly finding files and e-mail messages located on your PC and connected resources, and one-click access to move, delete, copy, burn, attach, or drag and drop files as needed Enterprise Ready: Easy to deploy and easy to manage, with enterprise class security that blocks unauthorized access to sensitive information; robust Group Policy support gives IT Professionals control over everything—from the file types and locations that get indexed to how often the index runs over the network Rich and Flexible Development Platform: Easily extensible platform for third-party developers and IT professionals to build upon; comprehensive APIs for developers to display user search query results in custom applications and tools using Common Object Model (COM) interface
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| | Learn more about Windows Search and related technologies and how they can help you and your organization to be more efficient when it comes to managing the increasing amount of digital information you need to find. |
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| | Windows Search 4.0 Preview | Windows Search 4.0 is the latest version of Windows Search and it provides a more efficient and comprehensive solution for quickly finding almost anything on your PC and across your network. Windows Search 4.0 adds support for indexing encrypted files, and enables PC-to-PC search on Windows XP. It also features performance enhancements that make indexing and searching online e-mail faster and less network-intensive.
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| | Search and Organization in Windows Vista | Robust search and organization capabilities in Windows Vista help business users easily find and use the information they need to be more productive and make better business decisions. Integrated desktop search gives users the power to instantly locate files and e-mail on their PCs, while greatly enhanced organization features give users more flexibility in how they "see" their files.
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| | Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows XP | Windows Search for Windows XP allows you and your users to find over 200 of the most common file and data types including e-mail, contacts, calendar appointments, documents, and other formats extended by third parties. These capabilities enable you and your users to more efficiently find, manage, and organize the increasing amount of data common in business environments.
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| | Windows Live Toolbar | For users on versions of Microsoft Outlook previous to 2007, the Windows Live Toolbar adds a search entry point that provides integrated e-mail search capabilities. When used with Windows Vista or Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows XP, users can search the content of their e-mail messages and attachments, and act on those results, from within Microsoft Outlook.
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| | As a business computer user, you depend on easy access to information scattered across different computers, devices, intranets, servers, and databases within your organization. To make the best business decisions, deliver the greatest business impact, and maximize productivity, you must be able to find, use, and share relevant information quickly and easily.
Windows Search technologies provide a comprehensive solution for finding and organizing the content you care about, no matter where it is. And because Windows Search is part of the familiar Windows experience, using Windows Search software is simple, fast, and intuitive.
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| | Windows Search 4.0 Preview | Spend less time looking for important information and more time using it. Windows Search 4.0 helps you make better, more-informed business decisions so you can deliver the greatest business impact, and helps maximize your productivity by enabling you to find relevant information more quickly and easily, no matter where it is kept.
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| | Desktop search is a powerful and highly beneficial piece of technology that can dramatically improve your users' productivity, by helping them manage the flood of information they contend with everyday. But as more and more users install various desktop search tools in an unmanaged way, the overall health of your network can be adversely affected by security, privacy, and integration issues. Therefore, on corporate networks, a desktop search solution should be proactively managed like any other critical business application.
Windows Search technologies, which include the built in desktop search and organization features in Windows Vista and Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows XP, are designed to provide users with lightning fast document and e-mail search capabilities but with a a familiar, integrated UI, thus helping your users dramatically improve their productivity. These technologies are built to work smoothly with the most commonly used deployment and management technologies within corporations. Most importantly, though, you can be confident that Windows Search technologies have been engineered to the highest security and privacy specifications. Windows Search technologies, unlike other desktop search products, never send the contents of a PC's index to any party outside of your organization. As a result, you can be confident that your private data stays private.
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| | Windows Search 4.0 Preview | Windows Search 4.0 offers ease of management with a rich set of Group Policy settings and per-user Group Policy Objects. It also features reduced Exchange Server impact when indexing online mail, giving you the ability to increase the productivity and efficiency of your organization without putting additional strain on your network traffic. Discover a way to give your users a fast, reliable, and enterprise-friendly solution for finding and organizing information whether it's kept on a local hard drive, Exchange Server, or file share.
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| | Indexing services have been a part of Windows operating systems for over a decade. Windows Search technologies feature the latest version of the system index, which includes enhancements to performance, usability, and extensibility. As a result, the Windows Search platform allows you to use the system's search APIs to put your content into the search index and provide fast search capabilities within your own custom applications.
Windows features the widest support from software and hardware providers of any operating system, allowing a broader reach for your custom applications. The rich developer ecosystem provides you with a range of opportunities to enhance and expand your customer's search capabilities.
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| | Windows Search 4.0 Preview | Windows Search 4.0 provides an extensible development platform and includes a comprehensive API that enables developers to incorporate Windows Search functionality in custom applications and tools. Explore the powerful search capabilities and functionality of Windows Search and discover how it can work seamlessly with your custom applications.
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| | While searching for information on a PC or the Internet is pretty straightforward, corporations face a much more complex set of challenges when it comes to managing information. Enterprise Search needs to go beyond a simple PC search to connect employees with the critical information and expertise they need to get their jobs done. Whether it exists on the desktop, networked PCs, file shares, line of business applications, servers, portals, Intranet, or the Internet, information is readily available.
Enterprise Search technologies from Microsoft integrate seamlessly—from Windows Search for the desktop to SharePoint technologies for the server to Windows Live for the Internet—to empower people to find information and expertise anywhere in the organization.
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|  | | | | See Windows Search in action, and get helpful search tips. |
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