Microsoft Launches MSN Desktop Search

By Ian Bell May 16, 2005

These new innovations for Windows customers will make it easier than ever to find and retrieve documents, e-mail, images, video and more on their Windows-based personal computers.

“By offering the most integrated desktop search capabilities for Windows, now people can search their PC as fast as they can search the Web,” said Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president for the MSN Information Services & Merchant Platform division at Microsoft. “The new MSN Search Toolbar makes it easy for customers to find precisely what they’re looking for, no matter where it resides.”

The MSN Search Toolbar, available for free download today at http://desktop.msn.com/, enables people to conveniently search their desktops from within familiar applications they use every day — including Microsoft Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office Outlook — combining the one-step ease of a Web search with the richness and power of the PC environment.

More details can be found at the Microsoft Website

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