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Remote Search in Windows Search 4.0
Following up on the Windows Search 4.0 Preview release, I will be writing several posts about some of the new features and changes enabled by this release. One such feature, and this first one I will...
View ArticleJoe Wilcox says Vista is failing (again)
In this morning’s article, Windows: A Monopoly Shakes, Joe Wilcox paints a grim picture for Windows. Apparently, about 90% of surveyed enterprises adopted Windows XP in 2007, and about 6.3% adopted...
View ArticleA glimpse of the future
Today I saw, for the first time, a software release where an update had to be released to address 32-bit compatibility issues, as the initial release was apparently only tested on 64-bit machines. Neat.
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Windows Search Indexer Status Gadget
I’m pleased to announce that the second tool to join the BrandonTools.com collection is now available! It’s a new Sidebar Gadget for those who want to see what the indexer is up to and to easily...
View ArticleTech journalism is dead to me
Gary Morgenthaler of Business Week is the latest in a series of tech journalists to really disappoint me. Why? Just look at his latest rubbish posted on Business Week’s website today. Consider the...
View ArticleGetting the shell to run an application for you – Part 1: Why
Some people seem to think that calling ShellExecute or ShellExecuteEx and passing the path to an executable will have the effect of telling the shell to launch an application for you. However, that’s...
View ArticleGetting the shell to run an application for you – Part 2: How
The key to getting Explorer to do your dirty work lies in the IShellDispatch2 interface. Particular, the ShellExecute method. IShellDispatch2 is one of the shell automation objects used to support...
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Windows Search 4.0 released!
Windows Search 4.0 was released this afternoon. This release focuses on performance and reliability improvements. Here are some highlights: Faster queries, often several times faster Faster indexing...
View ArticleWindows Search 4 vs Vista built-in search
When I first posted about the WS4 release on Neowin a few members had a response that I had never expected. Some examples: Windam – I wonder why this would be released for Vista since search is...
View ArticleNYT article says we should throw away Windows
A couple months ago I posted about an article by some guy at Business Week, that made all sorts of rubbish claims about Windows and OS X. Not to be outdone, Randall Stross at the NY times decided he...
View ArticleGet A Mac ads jump the shark
These may have been kind of cute or clever in the past, misleading as they were. But now they’re just plain obnoxious. When I bought my new car last year there was a car salesman at one dealership who...
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Indexer Status gadget updated
I updated my Windows Search indexer gadget with a couple of fixes. If you run the gadget, you may want to update in order to fix issues with the play and fast-forward (“index now”) buttons not...
View ArticleDesktop Search on the Win7 Engineering blog
About a week ago we posted an entry to the Windows 7 Engineering Team Blog about Windows Desktop Search, describing the motivation behind indexing files and what investments we’re making in that area...
View ArticleWhy does Windows put 64-bit binaries in System32?
Raymond Chen recently wrote about the WOW64 system that Windows uses to virtualize file system and registry access for 32-bit applications running on a 64-bit version of the OS. In the comments, some...
View ArticleWhen version checks go wrong
Ars Technica’s review of Windows 7 is extensively detailed and contains a lot of good information. But one piece jumped out at me, and that was this paragraph on the last page: If Vista had gotten the...
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