If you have installed Office 2007 you have been nagged to install the new Desktop Search engine version 3.0. Until recently I had held off doing so because Desktop Search 3.0 was an engine only install, no UI. Since I use MSN Desktop Search frequently, (I prefer it over Google Desktop), I did not want to loose my UI for Desktop Search 2.5.

But I checked again and now Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2 is available and it includes the full UI! So I have downloaded and installed it and will let you know what I think about it as I begin to experiment with it.

UPDATE: After playing with the new version for the last several days, I have found no issues or problems. I love it! It seems faster and searching inside Outlook was incredible compared to the older search functionality.

I frequently use it to search Source Code as well as standard documents on my hard drive, indeed, I can’t imagine life without it, so if I run into snags with this version I will let you know fairly quickly.

Cheers,

Robert Porter