Monday, December 13, 2004

Why wait for Longhorn? Microsoft's exciting new MSN Toolbar Suite delivers instant desktop search today! The new MSN Toolbar Suite is quite a bit more accomplished than its predecessor, offering a number of toolbar-based entry points to both local and Web searching. Each of these entry points--including the MSN Deskbar, MSN Toolbar for Microsoft Office Outlook, MSN Toolbar for Microsoft Windows Explorer, and MSN Toolbar for Microsoft Internet Explorer--can search your hard drives, applications, and email as well as the Web. Specifically, you can search all Outlook items (Outlook 2000 and newer, including email, contacts, calendar appointments, and tasks), Outlook Express 6.0 and newer email and attachments, all Microsoft Office document types (including OneNote notes), plain text, Web pages, Adobe PDF files, AVI, Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video, JPEG, GIF, BMP, and MP3 files, and the contents of all saved MSN Messenger chat sessions (if you've enabled that feature).