Technically it should, but that doesn’t happen in Vista by default either. You have to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 to get the necessary preview handler in Vista.

Yeah, that’s true, but the machine I use which has the previous version only enabled PDF previews on files, not attachments. Apparently that’s normal behaviour too..

I still think Spotlight work A LOT better I have used both and Spotlight is just smoother.

I don’t have a lot of experience with Spotlight, but from what I’ve seen it does actually look nicer.

Technically it should, but that doesn’t happen in Vista by default either. You have to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 to get the necessary preview handler in Vista.

I’m not sure I completely understand what you’re getting at. With Service Pack 1 Microsoft changed how the operating system reports the memory available. I just got done upgrading a laptop that had 4GB of RAM, but it wasn’t until I upgraded to Vista SP1 that the system was reporting that all of it was available to be used. But this has nothing to do with WDS, and so I don’t think I understand what new thing you are noticing.

I’m truly surprised with all the savvy people who comment on this site, that no one has noticed this fact. Microsoft isn’t publishing the fact either but you can watch as Vista loads up from BOOT and watch the Memory try and balance itself. I have only two Gigs I can load 4 but it’s a waste on 32 bit OS. (2.75 Gigs max utilized by OS)

I generally ran about 57% of available ram with Vista loading, now I run about 50% or less so for me this is “Must install update”. I couldn’t fathom WDS 3.0 consuming that much of additional resources. Vista isn’t holding onto the same amount of RAM that it used too.

Call it a perk and not a fluke, I have loaded WDS 4.0 on some other systems and observed the same reaction.

But apparently it does, try this out for yourself Ryan you’ll be amazed I was. Get the Update. At least for Vista.

I’ve been watching my memory usage since download on the March 27th.

But but typically, MS does not add features if the previous version does not have it. Also, why don’t you try it out yourself?

It’s not clear to me what the previous version is, especially on XP

I would try it myself if it was a final release. Rather not take the risk of it screwing with my system if it still doesn’t support what Copernic supports Anyway, I guess I’ll just wait

Check this out: http://www.microsoft.com/windo.....mpare.mspx If you’re using Outlook 2003, then this version drops support for it.

Nowhere it is said that WDS 4 will drop support for Outlook 2003? It only says that the Vista version of WDS does not support Outlook 2003.

I would guess that if it has the same preview handlers now as Vista that it should support Outlook just fine.

Does that mean that when you get a PDF attachment (not a file on disk) in the results, you get to see it within the Windows Search environment without having to open it separately? WDS on XP does not support that at the moment.

Sounds good! One question before I install it: does it support indexing and previewing attachments of emails in Outlook now? The previous version does not, which is why I remained with Copernic Desktop Search.

I would guess that if it has the same preview handlers now as Vista that it should support Outlook just fine.