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Posted by Hal Berenson on October 22, 2005, 10:54 am
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This isn't a matter of construction technique, but rather strategy.
Microsoft could simply choose to package it only one way. The fact that
they hide the non-Desktop Search version indicates that they are already
thinking that Desktop Search is a base feature and not an add-on.
--
Hal Berenson, President
PredictableIT, LLC
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Any idea if Microsoft will continue to offer a version of the toolbar
>> without desktop search in the future?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>>>
>>>> We have a Windows Server 2003 environment with Terminal Services.
>>>> We'd like to make the MSN Search Toolbar available to our users, but
>>>> we don't want Desktop Search. Is there a way to install just the
>>>> toolbar without installing Desktop Search?
>>>
>>> http://toolbar.msn.com/default.aspx
>>>
>>> Bottom right - select country and click "Download Now" for it. Not
>>> the top - that's the toolbar WITH the Desktop Search. I imagine you
>>> can just install it as a default profile user (you'll need to run it
>>> as an admin to install it probably - or at least I hope) and that
>>> *might* make it available to all users though I can't actually say
>>> I've ever tried to do such with GPO, roaming profiles, or anything
>>> handy like that. But, well, that'd be the download for it. You'll
>>> need to figure the rest out on your own. <g>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
>>> http://dts-l.org/
>>>
>>> "A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the
>>> furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in
>>> the lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it."
>>>
>>> Sherlock Holmes
>
> Any idea??? Well... No... Do I suspect that they will as there's likely to
> be a call for it and there's no "need" to build it in with the way
> development is done today? Yes, I suspect you'll be able to get it that
> way for a long time to come. SOA... Applications are built to fall
> in-place with each other and compliment each other meaning that they can
> be separated and not really require all the additional components. It's a
> whole different mind set than was taught when I was in school really but
> it makes sense and if looked at properly you can (I hope) see the value in
> it. Basically using a standard set of rules that apply system wide (and
> remember Microsoft Windows is popular not just for the reasons we expect
> but rather for the ease of development work on it) and an application that
> follows a certain set of guidelines means that you can add to, take away,
> and make additional components more easily intergratable. I'd like to hope
> that you'd be able to download JUST the toolbar for a long time to come
> however don't quote me on that and I can only state what I think
> should/could be likely to happen in this matter.
>
> --
> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
> http://dts-l.org/
>
> "A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the
> furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the
> lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it."
>
> Sherlock Holmes
>
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