Feature Reviews > Metadata Search
Looks great, if I can find an intern or someone to metadata our files. ;-/
Is Windows Search 4 any more stable or useful than the one that came with XP?
Looks pretty useful. I too and contemplating the magnitude of the task to tag all of our artwork. 
It is funny that you have chosen 'coffee' as your example. Since I have started sharing some of my original backgrounds on flickr several months ago, by far my most popular image is:
Posted By Doug Reece on 03 Jan 2011 11:31 AM
Please clarify the question. Windows Desktop Search did not come with any version of Windows XP, but there is a version of it available for XP.
I was confusing Desktop Search with the Windows Indexing service, which is in XP. 
Posted By Joel Osborn on 03 Jan 2011 12:22 PM
Posted By Doug Reece on 03 Jan 2011 11:31 AM
Please clarify the question. Windows Desktop Search did not come with any version of Windows XP, but there is a version of it available for XP.
I was confusing Desktop Search with the Windows Indexing service, which is in XP.
As far as we can tell, Windows Desktop Search either replaces or is essentially an upgrade from the Windows Indexing service (probably the latter). In other words, when you install Windows Desktop Search, you don't still have the old indexer also trying to index files. The user interface is the more useful aspect of Windows Desktop Search. However, in XP, it clearly looks bolted on were as in Windows 7 it is nicely integrated into all areas of the OS's shell UI.