Microsoft Desktop search released via MSN toolbar.

All of a sudden everyone has a desktop search tool including the one company that should have had it in the first place, Microsoft. It must be that it was never that difficult to do in the first place. Evidently, this is something that Microsoft could have done years ago but got caught with their pants down again.

What makes the Microsoft desktop search more interesting than the others is that they's incorporated into the MSN toolbar itself instead of another stand alone application. It's makes sense to have the toolbar be a point of search not only for the web but also for the desktop space. It will also search Outlook e-mails too. For those of us who don't use or don't like Outlook bloatware, it doesn't matter at all to us.

This has been the best move that Microsoft has made yet making the ubiquitous toolbar the point of contact for all types of search. These toolbars continue to be one of the most important and overused aspects of search. With massive distribution of these toolbars already in place, it makes it easy to upgrade. But I still question the clamor of desktop search from the general public. I don't think there is any and you can't grade the popularity or use of software from how many times it's been downloaded.

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