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Windows Vista SP1 at the Basis of the Optimized Desktop

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is at the basis of Microsoft's vision for the Optimized Desktop.. Of course that the Redmond company is building a comprehensive strategy that involves additional resources and solutions on top of its Windows client.



In this regard, Shanen Boettcher, general manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise, emphasized the role played by Application Virtualization App-V 4.5."Microsoft is moving forward and delivering on its promise to provide customers with a suite of virtualization, management and licensing options that truly optimize their computing experience by delivering scenarios that strike the right balance of end-user flexibility and productivity and IT Pro management and control," Boettcher stated.

In fact, Microsoft has just released to manufacturing App-V 4.5, formerly SoftGrid Application Virtualization, which will be shipped as an integral part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and Microsoft Application Virtualization for Terminal Services. Boettcher indicated that MDOP 2008 R2 would be made available in the next weeks.

"App-V 4.5 epitomizes what the optimized desktop is all about; centrally managed IT providing a seamless, unobtrusive, highly flexible solution for end users. It’s a win-win – IT maintains control over the infrastructure to ensure uptime,
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Written by Madhukar on September 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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New Languages Available for Windows Search 4.0 Preview

We're announcing quite a few new languages available of the Windows Search 4.0 Preview today.

The following languages are available for download for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008:

  • Arabic (Only for Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008)
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Bulgarian
  • Chinese - Simplified
  • Chinese - Traditional
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English (There is no MUI pack for English)
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hebrew (Only for Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008)
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Norwegian - Bokmål
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian - Latin
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian

Please take note that the following languages are available on Windows XP/Windows Server 2003 only with an MUI pack:

  • Bulgarian
  • Croatian
  • Estonian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Romanian
  • Serbian - Latin
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Thai
  • Ukrainian

Got feedback on the Windows Search 4.0? We've got several places that you can go to leave your feedback:

Written by Brandon LeBlanc on April 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview

To search for files on my PCs, I use Windows Search - Windows Vista's desktop search feature. I use Windows Search specifically to find photos that I've tagged in Windows Live Photo Gallery or important emails and Word documents. I also rely on saving specific searches that I can go back to later on. Searching and being able to find important files quickly on my PC is very important to me.  And Windows Search allows me to "find my stuff" whenever I need to. Today we get to see a little "preview" of the next step for Windows Search. The Windows Search Team is making available Windows Search 4.0 Preview - a preview of the next version of desktop search for Windows.

Windows Search 4.0 introduces several improvements I'd like to call out making search even better in Windows Vista:

  • With Windows Search 4.0, the Windows Search Team has fixed most of the reported bugs causing a majority of distractions users have seen since Windows Vista RTM - many of those bugs were reported by you.
  • Great improvements have been made with regards to performance.Even now as Preview, Windows Search 4.0 has query response time about 33%faster than search queries
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Written by Nick White on March 27th, 2008 with no comments.
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SP1 Search Changes

Microsoft published to its Web site over the past few days documentation that details changes the company is making to its built-in Vista search functionality that will be introduced with Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1.

Developers will be exposed to these changes for the first time when Microsoft rolls out its Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 beta — which is expected any day now. At the end of August, Microsoft provided Department of Justice (DOJ) officials with a build of SP1 that included these changes so technical committee members overseeing Microsoft’s compliance with provisions from its federal antitrust case could evaluate whether Microsoft was delivering the changes to which it committed earlier this year. (more…)

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Written by Jason on September 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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Vista Desktop Search Annoyance

I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. Thanks to pacpis for this news.

In the XP days, I was a huge Windows Desktop Search (WDS) fan, and like many WDS fans Vista search wasn’t that exciting because of new features but rather, it gave visibility to mainstream windows users that desktop search would change the way they computer.

When I used WDS I typically indexed my whole C:\ and I carried that practice over to Vista’s indexing service. That’s when I started having issues. I wanted to search all my content on the machine, but when I would search for any files in the Start Menu, I would never get any results returned on a search unless they were applications. For example, if I was to search for an excel file, it would not return in the Start Menu even though it was located in “Documents” — it was very frustrating.

As it turns outs, the quick fix was to change the start menu settings so that the search bar is set to “search entire index” instead of the default “search

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Written by Madhukara H on September 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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