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Microsoft's Upcoming Desktop Search Tool
Back in July, Microsoft purchased a company called Lookout who made a tool that allowed users of Outlook 2000+ to search through their email at greater speed and accuracy to the standard Outlook search tool. Since Microsoft acquired Lookout, the MSN team have been steadily working on Desktop Search and web search technologies. Google announced their own Desktop Search technology recently; the tool is fast but is limited in capabilities.The MSN Toolbar Suite integrates directly throughout the OS and varies according to where you're searching from. For example, if you're searching from within Windows Explorer you will search on your PC, in IE on the web and in Outlook the toolbar searches within Outlook. The bottom line : like the new online search, Microsoft have made a very good effort to get back in the game.
there really is a domain name for every constituency, isn't there? that's fantastic.
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They keep buying up companies, tying more shit (IE, WMP) into their OS, and generally being anticompetitive, and the government chooses to sit idly by as another one bites the dust, and as MS becomes more, more and more uncompetitive. It's insane. In a sane regime MS would have been divided into an OS/hardware company and an applications company.
Moll.
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