I'd like to ask for an enhancement to the Windows Federated Search feature in Windows 7. I'm not sure where the best place to submit such a request.I have been playing around with building search connectors for a few weeks now. This is a very cool feature of Windows 7 explorer and the file-dialogs. I find it most usefulin searching forfiles on remote repository systems that can return feeds since I can then download and open the files from within explorer or through the open-file-dialog. Of course, saving content back to the server is not allowed which is understandable sincethat would require a more sophisticated APP or REST functions.Also, the IOpenSearchSource interface (not yet documented enoughto be useful) promises more flexibility by allowing youwrite code tosearch anything you want and just return RSS.Because you can only open files in the temp directory using the enclosure-link, I would like to ask Microsoft to consider supporting alternate url protocols in the enclosure-link or some other link that we could include in the RSS response. For example, it would be great to include "ftp://" or "notes://" or even "myurl://" in the feed response to have the URL protocol handler invoked for that file. I think it may have to be a new special link since I would want the normal enclosure-download if invoked in the file-dialog.-David

Hi David You can make the Windows 7 Product Team aware of your request or thoughts by posting to our official feedback thread. Have Comments about Windows 7 Beta? All of the posts in that thread are collected, periodically by the Forum Owners and sent directly to the Windows 7 Product Team. Just click the Reply Button in the first post on that thread and post your comments.Thank You for testing Windows 7 Beta Ronnie Vernon MVP