Search and Windows 7
December 3, 2008
Ars Technica has a good summary of the search features in Windows 7; that is, Vista, Service Pack 2. You can find Emil Protalenski’s “Search in Windows 7 Will Go Beyond Local”. The article is here. Ars Technica reports that the system performance is faster, but I don’t pay much attention to benchmarks. I want to know how a search performs against my test data. The major difference is the Windows 7 can search content on drives and repositories to which the user has access. For me the most important point in the write up was:
…developers can add Windows 7 compatible OpenSearch support to any existing searchable web application by adding RSS or ATOM output (the desktop client can then have a Search Connector for the service). SharePoint Search Server can also query these compatible OpenSearch services (as shown at PDC 2008).
The idea is that users can share searchers with the help of a Microsoft Certified Professional. Other systems have had this ability for quite a while. But what crossed my mind is that Windows 7 is going to provide more search functionality than previous Microsoft embedded search systems have. What I want to watch is the way in which Microsoft hooks Windows 7 to SharePoint and SharePoint to Microsoft FAST ESP. Google has its approach to the enterprise, and I think Windows 7 shows one small part of Microsoft’s defensive tactics which include connectors to hook into propriety content stores. The challenge for Microsoft will be to get its various systems to work with one another. In my experience, inter operability among Microsoft’s own applications remains a gold mine for Certified Professionals and the Redmond giant.
Stephen Arnold, December 2, 2008
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