Both Google and Yahoo are also introducing similar desktop PC search tools.
"Our ambition for search is to provide the ultimate information tool that can find anything you're looking for," Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president at the software giant's MSN Internet division, told reporters.
Microsoft is deploying its new desktop search tool through a set of different toolbars that can be installed on the Windows desktop, the Internet Explorer
Source: Reuters
The beta version can be download here.