by Joe Gleinser
16. August 2009 23:49
For most users that skipped Windows Vista, the search features of Windows 7 will be an eye opener. I've been on Windows 7 for about two months. In those two months I have given up on browsing for ANYTHING. Search is faster, more accurate and grabs results that I didn't always expect (a newer version, etc). Search is much faster than browsing my start menu which is overloaded with dozens of apps. If I want to start OneNote, i just start typing One... and it filters the Start Menu for me.
More interesting are some of the advanced search features. WinExtra demonstrates extending the Windows search to automatically pull results from Twitter. The business value of Twitter may be suspect but integrating search to third party services is a heck of a feature.