Microsoft rersponds to Google on search box in Windows Vista
The search box in IE7 is not Microsoft?s. It belongs to the user. Our guiding principle for the search box in IE7 is that the user is in control. Read on for details.
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2.5.2006 What's New in Vista - File Select Check Box
Choosing multiple files and folders has been possible in Windows for as long as I can remember. Hold the CTRL key and choose the files and/or folders. Pretty simple, but there has to be an easier way right?
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1.6.2006 Windows Vista Search Kills Google Search
Has Microsoft finally gained the upper hand over Google with the launch of Windows Vista? Is this the last we will see of Google search, as the Redmond Company's latest operating system
will be increasingly adopted eroding the market supremacy of Windows XP?
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18.2.2007 The Vista driver outlook gets a little brighter
ve been watching for the past six months as PC hardware makers deliver updated drivers to make their products work with Windows Vista. Lately, the trickle has turned into a steady stream.
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8.7.2007 12 Tweaks - Squeeze Every Last Drop of Performance Out of Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a resource hog. Microsofts latest operating system will swallow every last bit of hardware resources you throw at it in the race for a top user experience, a concept synonymous with high performance.
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15.9.2007 The website is down because someone removed the X-Box
Public Universities are always running on a limited budget which means they sometimes come up with ?innovative? solutions. A couple of years back, an X-Box with some variant of Linux installed had been put in the server room to support a subject designed to teach computer-illiterate Philosophy students how to build their own web pages.
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8.6.2006 MSN Search and Windows Desktop Search Tips & Tricks
Brandon Paddock and Andy Edmonds (Windows Desktop Search team) have sent the word to let us know they're both hosting a 1-hour MSDN Webcast at 1pm (Pacific time, 9PM GMT) today.
They'll be discussing tips, tricks, and hacks for MSN Search and for Windows Desktop Search.
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9.12.2005 Tafiti Search Visualization - Silverlight + Live Search API
What is Tafiti? It is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). The source code for www.tafiti.com is available!
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19.12.2007 Asus Eee Box for only $269!
It will run on a 1.6 GHz Atom processor in Windows XP and Linux flavors, both of which are less green than a loaded iPod: $269 for the base 1GB RAM, 80GB storage Linux model and $299 for the XP version.
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3.6.2008 How I Use Outlook - 7 Tips
There are so many things you can do with Outlook, but I have to admit, I've never fully explorered all its features. However, the more I "live" in my Outlook at work, the more I've become obsessed with finding new and useful ways to get things done as efficiently and quickly as I can.
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21.11.2007 Windows 7 Box Art Themes & Wallpapers
I have just updated my Windows 7 Wallpapers and Windows 7 Themes Gallery with the following additions.
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7.8.2009 New Outlook Team Blog
Hi! Youve found the new home of the Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog, your one-stop-shop for tips, tricks, and rants directly from the Outlook product team here at Microsoft.
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15.6.2007 Windows 7 Ultimate Box Art DVD Cover
Windows 7 has already been RTMd and is now officially available to Connect, MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers.
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7.8.2009 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 How to delay all outgoing email in Outlook
I've been burnt many times on sending out an email that wasn't quite ready to go out. This could happen for a couple different reasons.
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7.7.2007 Asus Eee Box desktop to hit UK in August
Good news for fans of those cheap, cheerful and great value PCs from Asus the desktop version of the Eee will be with us in the UK later this summer.
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21.6.2008 Microsoft Store reveals official Windows 7 box art
There has been a fair bit of debate about the final box art design for Windows 7; you may have seen earlier that CentrumXP revealed versions of it, which some were doubtful of, but now (thanks to Long Zheng) we may finally have official confirmation... and it seems that CentrumXP was correct.
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6.6.2009 Quick Reference for Outlook Voice Access
Outlook Voice Access lets UM-enabled users to access their Exchange 2007 mailbox using analog, digital, or cellular telephones.
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12.6.2006 Outlook 2007 Update focuses on performance
Microsoft Corporation has released an update to Outlook 2007 designed to speed up the communication softwares much-criticized sluggishness.
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15.4.2007 Outlook 2007 Gadgets for Windows Sidebar
If youre a fan of the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar, but wish your upcoming appointments and tasks could be shown even when Outlook was minimized, Ive got great news for you, you can do this today with the Outlook Sidebar Gadgets.
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1.12.2007 Microsoft to kill Hotmail via Outlook Express on September 1
If you're still using Outlook Express for checking your Windows Live Hotmail, listen up.
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4.6.2009 Xbox 360 price drop on the way soon?
If a promotion in a printed UK advertising catalogue is anything to go by, the cost of the Xbox 360 Premium console with wireless controller and 20Gb hard drive is set to fall to the cheaper cost of the Xbox 360 Core system, just in time to spoil the launch of the PS3.
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20.2.2007 Live Searches Drop Below 1 Billion
August U.S. search share data shows ugly declines for Microsoft in 2008.
The month's data, released today by ComScore, is but a snapshot of a longer trend. I went back to the historical data, which shows how big Google gains are compared to Microsoft losses.
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21.9.2008 Squeezing Every Drop of Performance Out of Windows 7
In the sense in which Microsoft is building Windows 7 as the evolution of Windows Vista, the next iteration of the Windows client will perform as if on steroids, compared to its precursor.
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17.12.2008 PC sales to drop despite Windows 7
Research firm Gartner have published their predictions for PC sales for 2009, predicting that worldwide sales will fall by 6% from 2008 levels. The sales of netbooks, however, are set to rise.
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29.6.2009 Microsoft Outlook Web Access 2007 - new features in Beta 1
Hi. I'm DJ Schwend, a product designer working on the OWA team here in Exchange. I've put together this overview of the best new features in our Beta 1 release. We've made huge strides to improve the online experience and our goal is to keep being the best web mail client in the world.
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18.5.2006 Xbox360 Core Price Drop In UK
Yesterday the Xbox360 Core pack received an official price drop of 10 in United Kingdom, and now costs 199.
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27.8.2006 Xbox 360 Elite Price Drop
Starting Friday, August 28th (tomorrow) the price of the Xbox 360 Elite is getting a one-hundred dollar price cut in the United States.
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27.8.2009 Outlook HTML and CSS Validator (Office 2007 System Tool)
This download accompanies the MSDN articles "Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 (Part 1 of 2)" and "Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 (Part 2 of 2)." To view these articles, click the links available from the Related Links section of the page.
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14.8.2006 Microsofts profits drop for first time in 23 years
It goes to show that no company is truly recession proof. Microsoft is reporting that sales have fallen for the first time in 23 years. According to numbers released by Microsoft sales have fallen 6% year over year.
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24.4.2009Google Debuts 'Quick Search
Box'
Google on Wednesday released
the final version of Google
Desktop 3.0, adding a new
feature the company calls the
Quick Search Box. By pressing
the control key twice, a
search box will appear in the
middle of the desktop to
facilitate Web and local
searches. Hitting control
twice more makes the box
disappear...
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16.03.2006New search site - Imagine Live Search
A new Live Search site
was brought to our attention
recently (thanks Jamie),
http://search.imagine-liv
e.com/. What's obviously
different is the sparse
homepage, notably the lack of
vertical search options, which
directs the users focus to the
search box and nothing
else.
Diving
in further, search results are
different too. There are no
vertical search options
present under the search box,
however they appear in the
right hand column with
suggested results
pre-populated. Users can see
the results from these other
search options alongside the
main web search results,
allowing users to quickly
refine their query as they
become more aware of what each
search option offers them.
While the related
searches option is already
present on the main Live
Search site, the addition of
Image Search and News Search
is a nice touch. The great
part is that Windows Live Maps
is embedded, auto-detecting
your location and presenting
local search results based on
your query. ..
winbeta.org - 18.05.2007
Yahoo Begins Testing New Web
Mail
Yahoo on Tuesday began a
limited beta test of a new Web
mail system, which includes a
redesigned interface that
mirrors desktop-based clients
like Microsoft Outlook. Drag
and drop features are
supported through DHTML, and a
new search engine brings added
support for attachments...
betanews.com - 15.09.2005
New Windows Vista Media Center mail, RSS and videophone applications from OABSoftware
Aaron Stebner from
Microsoft's Media Center team
recently noticed a few posts
on the
http://thegreenbutton.com/foru
ms>Green Button forums
announcing some new and
updated Windows Vista Media
Center applications from
http://www.oabsoftware.nl/>OAB
Software. He posted some
information about them in case
you didn't see those forum
posts. This information is
summarized from the product
information pages for each
product and the forum posts.
Media Center Outlook
1.0
Media Center Outlook
is a new application for
Windows Vista Media Center.
It allows you to read email,
view your calendar and task
list, view information about
your contacts, read your
notes. It retrieves this
information from Microsoft
Outlook and displays it within
Windows Vista Media Center.
One important note -
Media Center Outlook cannot be
used on a Media Center
extender because it is not
possible to configure
Microsoft Outlook for the user
account that is used by the
extender...
winbeta.org - 16.06.2007
Expandable Google Search Box
If you entered long queries in a Google search box, you would notice that it's difficult to edit them because Google optimized the size of the box
for short queries. Things have changed and now you can much bigger queries and Google will adjust the search box's size after you perform a
search.
Google limits queries to 32 words, but most people don't need that many words. The average number of words in a Google
query was 4 at
the end of 2007.
winbeta.org - 25.03.2008
Yahoo! shares drop 10% on news of Microsoft search deal
Yahoo's share price plummeted 10% in early morning trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange following news of a search deal with Microsoft. The
NASDAQ had only been open for one hour as investors looked to drop Yahoo shares with trade volumes reaching as high as 12 million moves in the market.
Volume is the number of shares traded in a particular security during a given period of time. Microsoft and Yahoo! both announced a search deal
where Yahoo search results will be "powered by Bing" starting next year. However, share prices aren't Yahoo's only problem from the new
deal.
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neowin.net - 29.07.2009
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks
When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: finding exact phrases matches using quotes like "so say we all" or searching a
single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from
that unassuming little input box. Dozens of Google search guides detail the tips you already know, but today we're skipping the obvious and
highlighting our favorite obscure Google web search tricks.
winbeta.org - 03.01.2008
Visual search engine Xcavator launches
Xcavator
, the visual search engine
that lets professional
designers and others find
images they want and buy them,
has launched.
winbeta.org - 20.06.2007
Google offers search within search
Imagine searching inside Wikipedia or Amazon.com, but on the Google search site. Google's got a test going of a way to search inside different sites
from within a Google Web search results page. If you type in "amazon," "wikipedia" or "new york times" on Google, it brings up the relevant
result at the top and immediately underneath is a second search box. If you type a keyword in that secondary search box it will return results from
within that site.
(Via Search Engine
Land)
winbeta.org - 05.03.2008
Microsoft adapts Outlook for photographers
Microsoft has released a free Outlook plug-in to help photographers remember which equipment to bring to photo shoots they've scheduled with the
calendar and contacts software.
The free plug-in, called Pro Photo Shoot, lets photographers create a list of their photographic equipment and then use a check-box list
to pick what's needed for a particular appointment. Outlook produces a sorted list.
The software can be downloaded for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.
winbeta.org - 04.01.2008
Yahoo and Google unveil new
web products
The leading internet search
companies on Wednesday stepped
up their rivalry, with Yahoo
releasing a new version of its
e-mail service and Google
launching a search engine to
track the millions of web logs
being created
online.
The
???beta??? version of Yahoo
Mail, tested on a limited
number of users before its
final release, may be viewed
as a threat by Microsoft to
its Outlook e-mail software.
It mimics many Outlook
features, including preview
panes that allow e-mails to be
viewed without being opened, a
one-button delete feature and
the ability to drag and drop
e-mails into different
folders.
winbeta.org - 15.09.2005
FedEx Integrates Virtual Earth
Federal Express has launched their new drop box locater service using
Virtual Earth. Search for the nearest drop boxes and you'll get a resulting list of locations. Near the top of the result list is a "View Area Map"
link which opens up a div containing a Virtual Earth map plotting each of the drop box locations and a legend. You can also check or uncheck different
types of results such as "FedEx Staffed," "Self-Service," and "FedEx Authorized Ship Center." You can then update the results for the list and
the map. Each location on the map contains a popup with the location name and address.
From the list of results you can also link off to a
page with a map and driving directions. Pretty nice looking locator. I'll be expecting more robust functionality such as finding locations along a
route or drag and refresh maps; and/or, detailed information in the popups such as hours of operation and a click to call phone number. All in time, I
suppose.
neowin.net - 27.09.2007
Federating Windows Search with Enterprise Data Sources
Steven Sinofsky: The Windows Explorer has evolved by enabling you to find all sorts of content by searching for it. Many of you have used the search
features in Windows Vista (based on our instrumented data) from the start menu or from the search box in Explorer. It has been a long time since most
of us could remember where everything is by carefully managing our folder hierarchy and finding things based on file name alone. We often rely on
domain specific search (in music players, mail clients, photo clients) but with Windows Vista and Windows 7 we make it possible to search within a
namespace and across namespaces. This post is about a new feature based on Search that allows searching across PCs and even servers in an Enterprise
setting. Alwin and Scott, program managers, and Brandon, a developer, on the Find and Organize feature team authored this post.
winbeta.org - 24.03.2009
Microsoft goes social with Outlook 2010
As part of Microsoft's Office 2010 announcements today the company has taken the wraps off a number of social networking add-ins that will be
available for Outlook 2010. Outlook 2010 features a new Outlook Social Connector (OSC) straight into Outlook 2010. The connector provides a stream of
content from SharePoint, Windows Live and other social networking sites. At the bottom of Outlook emails users will be provided with contacts latest
social networking posts. The presence of social networking inside Office 2010 is part of a broad strategy that Microsoft is implementing. The next
version of Windows Live Messenger will also feature a social stream within the client, similar to the OSC.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 18.11.2009
Microsoft releases stand-alone Outlook with CRM built-in
This morning, Microsoft has come up with a new approach to the problem for which some Outlook users have been asking for over a decade: It's amending
Outlook to be able to handle business contacts in a relational manner -- for example, to group customers by the contact who brought them to you, or to
maintain custom data on those customers. Contact management is being built directly into Outlook.
But there's a catch: Microsoft
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, as the product will now be known, is a separate version of Outlook that will be integrated,
starting today, into Office Small Business, Professional, and Ultimate editions. For those who already have Office editions with the pre-existing
Outlook 2007, or who purchase Outlook or Office without the Business Contact Manager, the new version will be available separately as a replacement
for $149.95.
winbeta.org - 06.02.2008
Just Browsing Around - Searching with Google Chrome's Omnibox
You can look in pretty well any recent browser and they'll all have one thing in common, the search box. They've all got it, they're all in the
same place and they all work the same way. But there is one exception; Google Chrome.
Google Chrome's search box doesn't work quite the
same way as you would come to expect in Internet Explorer or Firefox. In fact, Google Chrome doesn't even have a search box. Heck, it doesn't even
have an address bar. Instead, it has what Google has dubbed an "Omnibox"; an ingenious two-in-one solution. Working as both the address bar and the
search box, the Omnibox provides you with much more screen real estate for both your searches and browsing history and faster access to your search
providers of choice.
Don't believe me? See for yourself...
jcxp.net - 10.05.2009
Outlook Express to finally end access to Hotmail
Yesterday an e-mail was sent out from the Windows Live Mail Team announcing that Outlook Express would be dropping the legacy DAV protocol on June 30
2008, severing access to the Hotmail Inbox from Outlook Express...
betanews.com - 24.04.2008
Windows Search 4.0 Now Available
Windows Search 4.0 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. Windows Search 4.0 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages,
music files, photos, and other items on the computer.
The search engine in Windows Search 4.0 is a Microsoft Windows service
that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007. You can use this search engine to index a
program's content and to obtain instant results when you search in a particular program.
winbeta.org - 04.06.2008
Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1
With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your
Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free!
winbeta.org - 23.07.2008
Windows Desktop Search 3.0
Beta 2
The search engine in WDS 3.0
is a Microsoft Windows service
that is also used by programs
such as Microsoft Office
Outlook 2007 and Microsoft
Office OneNote
2007.<br>
<br>
;
You can use this search
engine to index a
program's content and to
obtain instant results when
you search within a particular
program. WDS 3.0 supports the
following
installations:<br>
Microsoft Windows XP Service
Pack 2 (SP2) and later
versions<br>
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Service Pack 1 (SP1) and later
versions<br>
<br
>
You cannot install
WDS 3.0 on a Microsoft Windows
Vista-based computer, because
WDS functionality is already
built into Windows Vista.
<br>
<br>
This Beta 2 release is an
update to the Beta Engine
Preview release of WDS 3.0.
The most noticeable
improvements in the Beta 2
release include a full desktop
search user interface, 64-bit
support, and faster search
results. The WDS 3.0
installation process will
automatically upgrade WDS 2.5
and later versions of WDS.
Before you install WDS 3.0,
use the Add or Remove Programs
tool to uninstall versions of
WDS that are earlier than
version 2.5...
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