Microsoft Unveils Software to Find Files
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Microsoft Corp. on Monday joined the battle for supremacy in so-called desktop search, introducing software for quickly locating files on personal computers that challenges Google's two-month-old rival product.
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The online search battle was extended earlier this week, when Microsoft launched its new desktop search tool - allowing users to find their favorite music, email, acrobat files and other documents in a friendly and effective manner.
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Microsoft announced its free Live Search 411 service, a directory assistance line with more features than the average local directory listing.
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New service offers 2GB of storage and a copy of Outlook 2003.
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Google brought the simplicity of its popular Internet search engine to the computer desktop last week, releasing software that allows people to use its home page to search their hard drives for documents, e-mail messages and other hard-to-find files.
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Like the desktop search tools from Microsoft and Google, the Ask Jeeves product enables users to search for information stored in the desktop, such as Microsoft Office documents, Outlook e-mail messages, and picture, music and video files.
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Under pressure from Google, Microsoft has agreed to make it easier for users of Windows Vista to choose third-party software tools to search their hard drives. The change will be included in a significant update scheduled for release sometime later this year.
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Another front in the on-going battle between Microsoft and Google is about to be opened. By the end of 2004 Microsoft aims to launch search software to find any kind of file on a PC hard drive.
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Microsoft has unveiled a mid-range storage system that it said will make it quicker and easier to back-up and recover files from Windows servers.
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Microsoft Corp. has submitted a test version of its Windows Vista operating system with features that make it easier to use non-Microsoft programs to search PC hard drives, according to a report issued by the Justice Department Friday.
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MicrosoftÂ has joined the desktop search fray with its release Monday of the beta test version of a suite of tools designed to let users find information stored in their PCs.
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Microsoft has entered the desktop search fray, releasing a test version of its tool to find documents, e-mails and other files on a PC hard drive.
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Microsoft Corp. yesterday made its debut in the suddenly ultracompetitive market for helping people find elusive files and information on their computer hard drives.
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TechWeb - Oracle has launched software that the company says is designed to provide &quot;low-cost&quot; management of Office documents, PDF and image files, and other unstructured data.
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Documents released today detail changes Microsoft will make to its desktop search and indexing feature in Windows Vista.
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Office, Microsoft Corp.&#39;s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) collection of programs for business documents and tasks, is fast becoming a software platform unto itself.
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Microsoft and Ask Jeeves both announced tools Monday that allow users to search their desktop computers, adding their names to a crowded field of Internet search companies that are focused on helping people more effectively scan their own hard drives for files and e-mail messages.