Vista Makes Run at Google

no browser need to search the internet

[walkman]

sort of anyway :)
"Microsoft will tie in contextual Web search across its host of popular applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint in a way similar to how Google's email system currently displays ads, Ramos says. The move will allow Vista users to launch Web searches at the click of a button and from their desktops, rather than having to maneuver to an Internet browser.

If the development pans out, it has the potential to cut a larger-than-expected slice out of Google's market-share domination."

[thestreet.com...]

[webdoctor]

This sounds quite like Google's Desktop [desktop.google.com] except it needs Vista and Google's Desktop doesn't.

...or am missing something? :-)

[walkman]

I think the idea that people will use Vista--like most of us do for other things--and search directly from it, skipping going to the browser to search.

[RichTC]

It will be interesting this one

At the end of the day most of us will move from XP to vista as we upgrade so one should assume that search traffic will go up on live search, despite how bad it is - by how much is the burning question?.

Only thing i dont get is how exactly the search will work from say an ms word doc for example?. I thought it highlighted the words in the doc and you clicked on them for live search results? If i have this right then i cant see visitors increasing by much on the basis that out of all the zillions of word docs produced i can count on the fingers of my left hand how many would contain words i want to do a search on.

Regarding the search box being built into windows, unless the search performs well, users will change the default to either Yahoo or Google.

Overall, im hoping this will make some impact, i would love to see search more evenly spread accross all engines

[pageoneresults]

At the end of the day most of us will move from XP to Vista.

I was going to upgrade to Vista myself. After speaking with a Vista upgrade specialist, their advice was to wait a while. There are too many programs that I utilize that still don't work under Vista. :(

[nonni]

I'm in no hurry to upgrade - I am cheap, and things work the way they are now.

Even if no one goes out an upgrades to Vista, that version of Windows will ship with every new computer. Computer years are like dog years, and a large number of people will be using Vista in the near future.

[hutcheson]

This week I've had a couple of opportunities to try to explain (over the phone) how to use Microsoft-Wind (XP) "search for files."

And all I have to say is "curse Bill Gates and all his black-hearted minions for the thickest load of user-hostile codswallop in known space."

It seems to me that Vista is already backfiring on all cylinders, and this is yet another example. Anyone who's ever worked through half-a-dozen unnecessary synchronizations of hand/mouse and I to get the chance to sit fuming at that inane cartoon mutt wag its caudal appendage while Windows search runs--um, crawls--through a hard drive, is liable to leap at any alternative.