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Flickr search in Win7
19 November 08 03:52 PM | Brandon Live!
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...
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Channel 9: Windows 7 and OpenSearch
04 November 08 12:02 PM | Brandon Live!
Our video about integrating OpenSearch-enabled data source with Windows 7 is now available on Channel 9! Check it out! Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Got Windows 7? Try out OpenSearch!
01 November 08 06:04 PM | Brandon Live!
As we announced as PDC earlier this week, Windows 7 includes rich search federation using the OpenSearch and RSS/Atom standards. I’ll be talking much more about it in the future, but I wanted to give you all a chance to check out the publicly accessible...
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Heading home from PDC
30 October 08 08:18 PM | Brandon Live!
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...
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Desktop Search on the Win7 Engineering blog
23 October 08 05:18 PM | Brandon Live!
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...
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Indexer Status gadget updated
08 October 08 10:29 PM | Brandon Live!
I updated my Windows Search indexer gadget with a couple of fixes.  If you run the gadget, you may want to update in order to fix issues with the play and fast-forward (“index now”) buttons not properly reflecting the state of the indexer back-off...
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Countdown to PDC
30 September 08 12:25 PM | Brandon Live!
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...
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How my team and I fit into Windows 7
18 August 08 11:25 PM | Brandon Live!
As you probably heard (if you’re reading this blog), Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan recently launched the Windows 7 Engineer Team Blog. This afternoon the Steven made his second post on the blog, discussing the Windows 7 engineering organization...
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Windows Search 4 vs Vista built-in search
07 June 08 11:32 PM | Brandon Live!
When I first posted about the WS4 release on Neowin a few members had a response that I had never expected. Some examples: Windam - I wonder why this would be released for Vista since search is already a well integrated feature to begin with. Is it just...
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Windows Search 4.0 released!
03 June 08 05:16 PM | Brandon Live!
Windows Search 4.0 was released this afternoon.  This release focuses on performance and reliability improvements.  Here are some highlights: Faster queries, often several times faster Faster indexing / reduced resource usage Support for EFS...
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Remote Search in Windows Search 4.0
29 March 08 07:56 PM | Brandon Live!
Following up on the Windows Search 4.0 Preview release, I will be writing several posts about some of the new features and changes enabled by this release.  One such feature, and this first one I will dive into here, is the capability to remotely...
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Windows Search 4.0 Preview release
27 March 08 09:21 PM | Brandon Live!
Today we made available the WS 4.0 preview release for Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003/2008. You can read details about WS 4.0 at the following sites: Vista Team Blog - Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview KB Article describing Windows Search...
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FAQ: How do I disable indexing for most file extensions?
16 March 08 06:54 PM | Brandon Live!
The answer is simple:  you shouldn’t. I’ve been e-mailed this question a couple times now, and seen it on forums more times than that.  Sometimes the person asking the question says something like, “I only want to index my...
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FAQ: Office 2007 documents, kind:document, and 64-bit Windows
29 November 07 04:54 PM | Brandon Live!
If you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista, or a 64-bit version of WDS 3.x on Windows XP/2003, you may notice that the new Office 2007 document formats (.docx, .xlsx, etc) don’t show up when you search using the “Documents”...
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