Hi. I'm Brandon. I'm a geek, and I work on Search technology for Windows at Microsoft. This is my blog.
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June 8th, 2008 at 6:47 am
This is probably because no one ever calls Vista’s searching capabilities “Windows Search 3″ by anyone. It’s just Vista’s search/index/whatever people want to call it.
Maybe if you guys renamed the update to something like a “Performance and Reliability Update for Windows Search” this confusion wouldn’t occur.
June 9th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Hi Brandon,
WDS 4.0 is freakin’ awesome! I’ve installed it on all 10 of the Vista machines in my small business and users are extremely pleased with the performance increase. The ability to search the index of a network share is greatly welcome and works extremely well. Congrats.
One question. Is there any way to get network share results to show up in the Instant Search results of the start menu?
Thanks,
Jeremy
June 15th, 2008 at 8:37 am
WDS 4.0 Xp edition also hosting vista only preview handler for xp. now i can preview/play mp3 directly in WDS 4.0 preview pane in Xp instead of just album art picture such in previous (WDS 3.1) version.
to preview/play mp3 and other preview handler supported files, you need Azar’s WMP preview handler for xp that you can download for free: http://www.azarfamily.org/previewhandlersforwindowsxp
Thanks for the awesome tools. Good luck.
July 11th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I just installed your indexer gadget on Vista and was surprised to see only version 3 of Windows Search was installed (my system is up to date). Why not release it via windows update? Are there many more such useful updates that not released via windows update? How do I find them? I want to have my system running at its best.
Thank you.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:12 am
I would also like to know how to get the network share search results in the start menu. I have moved most of my documents to Windows Home Server. I really don’t want to lose the only big improvement in Vista, direct search from start menu, just because I bought an expensive home server. Please, Brandon, could you respond and tell us how to do it.