Long Zheng of iStartedSomething.com has taken it upon himself to enable users to leverage my Windows 7 feature, called Search Federation, to search their Flickr photos from inside the Explorer.
It looks like a work-in-progress, and since his service works as a proxy to talk to Flickr, performance isn’t what it would be if Flickr had a native implementation. But for something he threw together over the last night or two I’m impressed!
We’ll be talking more about Search Federation on the Engineering Windows 7 blog soon, and will have much more to share when we deliver the upcoming Windows 7 beta release.
Our video about integrating OpenSearch-enabled data source with Windows 7 is now available on Channel 9!
It’s been a whirlwind of a trip here in LA. When I arrived I thought I’d be blogging, posting photos, and keeping in touch with the outside world the whole time. Well, that didn’t quite work out. There was always so much going on and so much to do, that the little downtime I had when I arrived back at my hotel was spent squeezing some of that “sleep” stuff into my schedule.
In case you’re wondering which of the features unveiled at PDC is “my baby,” that would be the OpenSearch-based search federation feature in the Windows Explorer, detailed in the Find & Organize session which you can watch here.
We also have a Channel 9 video covering the new Libraries feature and other user experience improvements in Explorer for Windows 7. This video is part 1 of a two part series, the second of which covers the Search Federation feature (and yours truly).
For now, the best place to learn more about OpenSearch in Windows 7 is to watch the session video at the link below.
In about an hour I’ll board my flight to LA, which will be my first on Virgin America airlines. I’m heading down a day or two early to visit my younger sister and enjoy a bit of warm sun before the conference kicks off on Monday. From what I hear, there should be some pretty exciting stuff happening on Monday beginning with Ray Ozzie’s keynote address.
Of course, what’s most exciting to me is that on Tuesday we’ll begin talking about all of the work my team and I have been doing for nearly two years now (has it really been that long?!?). My friend and colleague David Washington, platform PM for the Find & Organize team, will be presenting our session on Tuesday afternoon. It’s the one titled “Windows 7: New APIs to Find, Visualize, and Organize.” Apparently it was a bit of a challenge to come up with an interesting title that didn’t spoil the fun of our announcements. At any rate, if you’re at all interested in Windows Explorer or Search - you won’t want to miss it
I’ll be there to help answer questions after the session, to assist with our hands-on labs, to hear everything you have to say about the work we’ve done and what we can do to make sure Windows 7 is a compelling offering for you and your customers / users.
Oh yeah, and one more thing for those of you following along at home. On Thursday, David and I were interviewed by Dan Fernandez for my very first Channel 9 video. I expect it’s the first of many, and I think you’ll enjoy it when it’s made available in just a few days.
About a week ago we posted an entry to the Windows 7 Engineering Team Blog about Windows Desktop Search, describing the motivation behind indexing files and what investments we’re making in that area of the system. It’s a good read so check it out if you haven’t already.
This afternoon we made a follow-up post addressing some of the suggestions, comments, and concerns that showed up in the comments to the original entry.
If you have more feedback, please keep it coming. I and others will try to respond in the comments over there, or in future follow-ups.
PDC is only 26 days away! While I don’t have a session of my own as I’d originally hoped, I will indeed be there. The session representing my team’s platform work is already up on the PDC agenda. You can find it by narrowing down to the sessions titled “Windows 7.”
Windows 7: New APIs to Find, Visualize, and Organize
The presenter is my good friend David Washington, who is my team’s platform and SDK PM. The talk will cover a variety of really cool topics, including my feature area which we’ll be talking more about soon.
If you’re going to be at PDC this year please leave a comment and share a bit about yourself and what you’re looking forward to seeing there.
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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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