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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...

Filed under: Microsoft, Desktop Search, Life of Brandon, Windows Shell, WDS Development, Search, Windows 7, Microsoft PDC, OpenSearch

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...

Filed under: Windows Vista, Microsoft, Desktop Search, Windows Shell, WDS Development, Search, WS4, Windows Search Blogs, Windows 7

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...

Filed under: Windows Vista, Desktop Search, Windows Shell, WDS Development, WS4

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...

Filed under: Microsoft, Desktop Search, Life of Brandon, Windows Shell, WDS Development, My Co-workers

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...

Filed under: Windows Vista, Microsoft, Desktop Search, WDS FAQ, Windows Shell, WDS Development, Search, WS4

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...

Filed under: News, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Desktop Search, Windows Shell, WDS Development, Search, WS4, Windows Search Blogs

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...

Filed under: News, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Desktop Search, Windows Shell, WDS Development, Search