However, the long-anticipated new product, called FAST Search for SharePoint, won't ship until the next version of , codenamed Office 14, does, said Jared Andersen, a senior product manager for enterprise search at Microsoft.

Andersen declined to say when Office 14 would ship. Some experts expect .

FAST Search for SharePoint will be aimed at enterprises and designed to work "out of the box" with large SharePoint document repositories, said Andersen.

Scalability is one of the FAST software's strongest traits. it bragged that it would become the only vendor to offer a unified enterprise search platform capable of sorting and searching through billions of documents.

By comparison, the existing search features in (MOSS) have trouble handling repositories with more than 50 million documents, last month.