Corporate version to follow MSN Desktop Search

Corporate version to follow MSN Desktop Search

Microsoft on Monday released the final version of their recently unveiled competitor to the Google Desktop Search and Apple Tiger’s Spotlight, MSN Toolbar Suite. The suite comes with three toolbars designed to make desktop searching easier for the end user. The utility indexes the files on the system when the computer is in idle state and makes them available for searching as easily as it is to search the web nowadays.

However, the interesting bit of information released during the launch was the Microsoft is now planning to offer a corporate solution for desktop searching. Maybe, the aim is to target Google Mini Appliance, which allows companies to index documents lying on their intranets for local searching.

The official statement said: “In response from corporate customers looking for desktop searching capabilities designed for their needs, Microsoft is developing a desktop search offering, built on Windows Desktop Search, for the corporate environment.”

If indeed this is aimed at Google’s search solutions for small and mid-sized organization, we might be seeing Microsoft trying to invade in a territory where Google rules. The fight would be interesting considering Microsoft’s new MSN Search Engine has somewhat disappointed the users of their web portal. We would have more details as the software giant is expecting to launch it at the end of the current year.