Microsoft Vista is for next year 2006. Google Desktop V2 is available, even if localized version are still in Beta and are not fully bug free.

Other technologies are already available but may have trouble to sustain the race with big competitors like Microsoft, Google and the like.

It’s sure that we are really at the brink of this new technology development. The biggest issue is then about deployment: one could kill this technology if it does not deliver the expected value due to technical issues.

The cost is then not so much on the client technology development making “awarelets”, it’s more about the trust user may loose if we don’t’ bring the expected value.

We should start now to deliver it next year as a pilot.