Bingo Bing :)

Our new search engine, more than just search, it would be a decision engine.

In a bid to provide better search experiences, we will be releasing a new decision engine next week.  The official name is Bing.  I think it is a cool name and this would definitely improve the traditional experience people find with Search.

Today, people go to search engine to find results which are assumed the  best.  But these are mostly rated based on the number of links, word presence, meta tags etc.,  However, in a day where people search for just anything and everything, more analysis, relevance, combined with intelligent decision making would be true way for getting the best results.

For now, Bing is coming soon and you can find more about it at http://www.bing.com/ComingSoon

As always, a new release first goes through the initial criticisms, comparisons and the denial phase before it gets adoption and I am sure, with your feedbacks and support, Bing would be a great release just as the Windows 7 Beta, we did recently.

I have used a variety of search engines, including Live and the other popular engines, but have rarely got what I want, although the engine thinks that it is the most relevant result.

With Bing, I look forward to that perfect result, I have always wanted.

Cheers !!!

Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2

The Windows team put up quick work and released the SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 despite the parallel Windows 7 work that has been keeping them busy.   So if you are running Windows Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008, you can install SP2 released from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a4dd31d5-f907-4406-9012-a5c3199ea2b3&DisplayLang=en or better turn on automatic updates and it should do the update sometime during this month.

Currently it is available for 5 languages and more general availability might be over the next few months.  Note that Windows Vista SP1 is a pre-requisite and it can be downloaded from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb738089.aspx

In the case of Windows Server, when it was released, it came by default with SP1 so this is technically the Service Pack 1 although, for versioning consistency it is SP2.

The Windows Team proactively blogs about these new releases and other updates at http://windowsteamblog.com/

The particular post which talks about this and the links for other flavours such as x64, Enterprise etc., is http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2009/05/26/windows-vista-and-windows-server-2008-sp2-rtw.aspx

For the folks interested in details about this Service Pack, it is KB948465

Cheers !!!

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