In the last video, Esther told you all about how Instant Search makes her day-to-day life easier. Today, she's going to talk to you about Live Icons, which makes searching even faster by letting you see a preview of the files you're searching for. If you're a visual person you'll especially appreciate seeing icons instead of file names or ...

I wanted to give you all a heads up on something new we're bringing to the blog.  A lot of times when the Product Team is showing off Windows Vista, the crowd is pretty impressed by all of the useful features we built into the OS. Most of these are things that will make day-to-day work quicker or easier - especially ...

My good buds on the Windows Search Team have asked me to relay some exciting new information regarding Windows Search 4.0: Since Windows Search 4.0 (WS4.0) was released to the web on June 3rd, we've seen a good number of downloads, and a number of positive responses from customers who started using it.  Users are telling us that they're ...

Not necessarily a ''Windows Experience'' (although it does improve the Windows Experience) - I'm making this post on behalf of the Windows Search Team. Oh and I am really excited for this release. Today we released the final version of Windows Search 4.0 to Microsoft Download Center. Windows Search 4.0 updates search in Windows Vista, ...

Brandon Paddock, who works on the Windows Shell Team here at Microsoft, wrote a Windows Sidebar Gadget that displays the status of the Windows Search Indexer. Download the Indexer Status Gadget here. I don't know about you but I think it's kind of neat being able to see how many files Windows Search has indexed on my PC right from my ...

To search for files on my PCs, I use Windows Search - Windows Vista's desktop search feature. I use Windows Search specifically to find photos that I've tagged in Windows Live Photo Gallery or important emails and Word documents. I also rely on saving specific searches that I can go back to later on. Searching and being able to find important ...

Part 1 - Introduction  A lot of things happen when a new version of Windows is finished.  Parties are thrown, vacations are had, millions of discs are pressed, boxed, and shipped around the world.  There’s another tradition, however, that you may remember from previous releases.  We call them PowerToys… and I ...

Lately there’s been some stir about a project at Microsoft often referred to by codenames like “Casino” and “OneView.”  The team behind Casino started the project with some clear goals: to bridge the gap between searching local and remote data, and to create a next-generation desktop search experience building on ...