Microsoft bakes better enterprise search into SharePoint
InformationWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft's SharePoint has become a wildly popular application, recently eclipsing $1 billion in sales in a period of 12 months. It's jam-packed with capabilities from content management to collaboration, but has been criticized as too shallow in some feature sets.
Microsoft announced plans to fill one of those gaps today by more deeply integrating into the next version of SharePoint, enterprise search technology acquired via Microsoft's purchase of Fast Search and Transfer about a year ago.