http://www.liveside.net/opinion/archive/2008/04/01/a-brief-history-of-windows-search-4-0-beta-and-why-vista-search-still-sucks.aspxLast week saw the public beta launch of Windows Search 4.0 . While it brought several welcome improvements for consumers to the standard Windows Vista search, namely speed and better searching of remote computers, I can’t help get the feeling that theenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://www.liveside.net/opinion/archive/2008/04/01/a-brief-history-of-windows-search-4-0-beta-and-why-vista-search-still-sucks.aspx#7765Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:22:58 GMT56c526a3-1f9b-4262-a0cc-2de2ce4c7619:7765someone<p>It sucks because of the UI. Every search I perform has to be an advanced search, I cannot find anything with Basic search. The UI isn't flexible and comprehensive enough to customize the search the way I could in XP, although in XP it was real-time and non-indexed. Why can't Microsoft get a simple thing like that? </p> <p>Again, I feel why is Vista not being received well? Because of the shell! They screwed up everything, Explorer, network connections everything.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.liveside.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7765" width="1" height="1">http://www.liveside.net/opinion/archive/2008/04/01/a-brief-history-of-windows-search-4-0-beta-and-why-vista-search-still-sucks.aspx#7762Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:11:21 GMT56c526a3-1f9b-4262-a0cc-2de2ce4c7619:7762tophtucker<p>While it's nice and all that Vista search is built right into the shell, it also sort of limits it. If this stuff is being done in the shell, then the shell needs to be able to better adapt to different scenarios.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.liveside.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7762" width="1" height="1">