[Sigia-l] RE: Google desktop search now available

Boniface Lau boniface_lau at compuserve.com
Sun Oct 17 19:42:24 EDT 2004


> From: Listera
>  
> Assuming you wanted/needed the local search facilities of GDS:
> 
> A) Would you wait 3-4 years and pay to upgrade to Longhorn+ to use a
> similar functionality?

Windows 2000 and XP already come bundled with a local search facility
known as Index Server. People don't have to do anything to get it
running because it is enabled by default. 

After only days of using GDS, it became obvious that Index Server was
much more sophisticated. So, I removed GDS.


Boniface




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