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 ...

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 ...