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Beyond supplementing Microsoft;s SharePoint technologies,Microsoft Office Professional 2007 (http://www.microsoftoffice2007key.net/), what will Quick Search & Transfer,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 (http://www.key-office-2010.de/), Microsoft;s latest acquisition target, contribute to Microsoft;s search products and strategy?Microsoft and Fast shared a few more tidbits about potential areas of cooperation during a conference call with press and analysts on January 8.Microsoft is looking to enterprise-search experts at Quick to help Microsoft scale into “very high volume” queries involving billions, not just millions,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 (http://www.office2007key.in/), of sources, said Jeff Raikes, Microsoft President of Business Systems. Quickly also has a “more sophisticated” and granular development platform from which Microsoft will benefit, in terms of honing domain-specific Intranet and Internet searches,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise (http://www.office2007key.in/), Raikes told press and analysts.Additionally, Microsoft will be lookign to Quick for help with Web lookup. Raikes declined to get specific about exactly how Fast;s technology will dovetail/complement Microsoft;s Live Search, claiming that the proposed merger still needs to pass regulatory scrutiny.(Help can;t come a moment too soon on the Web lookup front, as Microsoft continues to lose share to Google,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional (http://www.msoffice2010key.com/), at least according to new data released by Hitwise on January 8. Microsoft dropped from 9.8 percent of Web searches to just over 7 percent in December 2007, Hitwise is reporting.)Although Fast has a solid customer and partner list, some market watchers are questioning why Microsoft paid $1.2 billion for a company that is in financial distress. (Fast may end up restating its 2006 and 2007 financial results, and three of its board members resigned at the end of last year).What;s your take? Will Quickly give Microsoft some quick help in the Intranet/Internet search arena? Or did Microsoft move too hastily and spend too much for what it got?