Organize, Visualize and Search

One of the more subtle, but very important (IMHO) additions in Microsoft Windows Vista has been in the Windows Explorer.

A few folks around the community have been categorizing these additions as 'Organize, Visualize and Search', which is a pretty apt name.

What Vista has done is enabled customers and developers to do a much better job of organizing data by using the new Property System. Similiarly, the Live Icons and Preview Handlers give deveopers ways of providing information to their users in an elegant and non-intrusive manner. Lastly, when all else fails, there is always a new, extremely powerful desktop search capability. This feature is embedded in Windows Explorer, but can also be accessed through an API.

I made a short 'highlights' video of these features, check it out if you get the chance.

Thanks!

Eric.