Microsoft's Windows Desktop Search and Google's Desktop Search are separate, free software packages that must be installed on the desktop, though Microsoft's product will be incorporated into Windows Vista next year.
While there are a number of file transfer utilities for Android users (e.g. FilePush, Filedrop), Portal's advantage is that it doesn't require a desktop application or browser extension to first be installed on your desktop or laptop computer – you can use it from a web browser alone.
Rather than coming directly from the sites themselves, it is estimated via a user sample who have a toolbar installed on their desktop or laptop PCs - and so does not record visits to sites made by people using tablets such as the iPad, or from mobile phones.
Surprisingly, however, the new search engine was not widely adopted; in fact, only a handful of analysts expressed interest in getting the interface installed on their desktop machines.
Loan officers at Franchise Mortgage Acceptance, for instance, are said to have had the Deloitte model installed on their desktop computers.
MetMask (version 0.5.3) was installed on a desktop computer running Windows 7. MetMask databases were created by importing identifier groups from Recon 2, HMDB and ChEBI.
And then instead of selling shrink wrap software that could be installed on a desktop or laptop, it was asking consumers to go to the Internet to access applications like Google Docs (Google's version of Office) and calendar.
Some advantages of using the CMC are that it can be installed on a desktop running with a supported operating system, such as Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000.
