For Christopher Walton, senior director of products for X1 Technologies, Inc., the term "desktop search" is more than a little misleading. According to him, the future of this field stretches far beyond the insular world of a user's personal computer. Rather, it's in the clouds. "If you were to try to classify desktop search, I think the biggest thing, and I think where X1really is a pioneer and an innovator, is in that belief that the desktop is a misnomer," he says. "The desktop in today's world really encompasses more than just the information on the local disc."
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