For the last few months, I’ve been using a faboo program called Lookout, a background search indexer for Outlook that lets me find any message in my multi-hundred-megabyte multiple message stores in a matter of a few seconds (vs. minutes for a by-folder check like Outlook provides). Sweet!
Now comes word that Micro$oft has bought them. Which means that the program is no longer available for purchase, and probably means that, rather than an independent product, the functionality will be bundled into Outlook Enterprise Edition XP 2008, available separately for $500, or as part of the Microsoft Seach Creation Enterprise Windows bundle for $13,000 …
And it won’t work, either.
Congrats, of course, to the two-man shop who put together a great product, and doubtless just made a big bundle o’ cash.