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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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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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It begins!
27 October 08 01:57 PM | Brandon Live!
Just got through with the first PDC keynote a short while ago. Since then I played with a Surface computer and met Larry Osterman. At the Surface machine I was given a little card to take around to all the Surface machines in the convention center for...
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Off to Los Angeles
25 October 08 12:32 PM | Brandon Live!
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...
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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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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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Why are browser plug-ins so insecure?
10 August 08 12:59 AM | Brandon Live!
Flash and Java, I’m looking at you. You may have heard about the paper released at this week’s Black Hat conference, describing limitations in Windows’ memory protection schemes like ASLR, DEP, etc.  The paper is well-written, very detailed, and...
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Microsoft Intern Video 2008 - The Spy
08 August 08 05:52 PM | Brandon Live!
In traditional Microsoft fashion, this year’s interns have put together a video about Microsoft… in this case, telling the story of a spy trying to find all our Win7 secrets Somebody posted the video to YouTube, which you can find here. Random...
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NYT article says we should throw away Windows
29 June 08 06:22 PM | Brandon Live!
A couple months ago I posted about an article by some guy at Business Week, that made all sorts of rubbish claims about Windows and OS X. Not to be outdone, Randall Stross at the NY times decided he could use some TechMeme love and wrote basically the...
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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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Tech journalism is dead to me
11 April 08 08:38 PM | Brandon Live!
Gary Morgenthaler of Business Week is the latest in a series of tech journalists to really disappoint me.  Why?  Just look at his latest rubbish posted on Business Week’s website today. Consider the following paragraph and tell me that...
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Windows Search Indexer Status Gadget
09 April 08 11:10 PM | Brandon Live!
I’m pleased to announce that the second tool to join the BrandonTools.com collection is now available!  It’s a new Sidebar Gadget for those who want to see what the indexer is up to and to easily control its behavior. Click here for details...
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