I stopped using MSN Desktop Search today because it stopped working. For almost a month I’ve had to resort to reg’lar ol’ Outlook search (which, as we all know, is plain pathetic) because MSN DS just wasn’t findin’ my stuff. I don’t know why, and I don’t really care.
But after 30 minutes with Google DS, I’m rolling again. I could care less about all the little widgets/gadgets that are part of Google DS – I just want to be able to find that email my boss sent me last week. And Google is performing nicely.
Nice try MSoft. In the words of my little nephew, “Too late! You had your chance!”
September 14, 2006 at 7:11 pm
[...] More word on why GMail just totally rocks, following my earlier post. The law firm at which I am employed uses some new fancy Exchange archiving software that removes the actual email content from the Exchange Server. Actually, I’m not in infrastructure and really had no involvement in the project so I’m not sure how it works – I just know that since the little archiver thingy was installed MSN Desktop Search couldn’t find emails anymore – emails that were still present in my mail folders. [...]