Lookout

[Trout]

very neat. realeased several hours ago.

Lookout is lightning-fast search for your email, files, and desktop integrated with Microsoft Outlook™. Built on top of a powerful search engine, Lookout is the only personal search engine that can search all of your email from directly within Outlook - in seconds...

You can use Lookout to search your:

* Email messages

* Contacts, calendar, notes, tasks, etc.
* Data from exchange, POP, IMAP, PST files, Public Folders
* Files on your computer or other computers

Just enter your search and press enter. Results are instant. Lookout will find your search terms hiding nearly anywhere in your Outlook mailbox - subjects, bodies, phone numbers, addresses, etc.

Though I Havent tried it (i dont use outlook) Thought Maybe Some of you Might like it.
Should almost work, afterall, Its From Microsoft




LINK to download site

[confus-ed]

So this is an existing product that MS have 'snaffued' .. its one of those CRM 'thingee whatsits' (customer relationship management) like SAS can be used for (there's other stuff like it too), another fine example of Billy Boy not being able to diy so he buys up the weakest competitor - though looking at the Lookout site itself it appears to be most cheeky as thats based on Open Source - I wonder how all them folks feel about this 'sell out' ?

Anyway to use it you are gonna have to turn on findfast (arrrrgh ! yuk!) & have Outlook 2000, Outlook XP, or Outlook 2003 installed on your computers alongside that other 'winner' from Billy, Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 (arrrgh ! Yuk ! some more ).

This little comment on the Lookout site seems to sum it up nicely - "Looks like the 'your world on our server' game is far from over..." !