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Beyond supplementing Microsoft;s SharePoint technology, what will Fast Search & Transfer,Microsoft Office Professional 2010, Microsoft;s latest acquisition target, contribute to Microsoft;s lookup products and strategy?Microsoft and Quick 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 Fast to help Microsoft scale into “very high volume” queries involving billions, not just millions, of sources, said Jeff Raikes, Microsoft President of Business Systems. Fast also has a “more sophisticated” and granular development platform from which Microsoft will benefit,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, in terms of honing domain-specific Intranet and Internet searches, Raikes told press and analysts.Additionally, Microsoft will be lookign to Fast for help with Web search. Raikes declined to get specific about exactly how Quick;s technology will dovetail/complement Microsoft;s Live Lookup, claiming that the proposed merger still needs to pass regulatory scrutiny.(Help can;t come a moment too soon on the Web search front,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, as Microsoft continues to lose share to Google,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, 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 Quickly has a solid customer and partner list,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, 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 quickly help in the Intranet/Internet lookup arena? Or did Microsoft move too hastily and spend too much for what it got?