Would you give Microsoft definitive advance warning about anything you were developing? And, it better be more a worthwhile product than their desktop search app. However, what confuses me is why, even if Microsoft is dominant, Google limited even the beta release of its desktop search essentially to only Microsoft products.

I don't use Word or Excel. And since the G's desktop search indexes only Adobe and Microsoft file extensions, I have no need for it. In fact, Google's new search and so incorrectly highly-touted product left at least one-third of my files unindexed and unfindable.

Copernic Desktop Search is far superior, but alas, did not receive even one-tenth the fanfare when it was released 6 weeks ago. I guess that's evidence of more dot-com IPO blindness.