Wininternals/Sysinternals Bought by Microsoft...
On My Way to Microsoft!
"I’m very pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Winternals Software and Sysinternals. ..."
Someone at MS made a great call in this acquisition. Sysinternals is, IMHO, a benchmark Windows utility provider, providing some of the best tools available.
But please MS, don’t assimilate these tools and turn them into something unrecognizable (like what happened with the very cool LookOut tool). And either include them in Windows, keep them as a free downloads [that looks like the plan for the time being] or use them to bulk up the Windows Resource Kit (having their tools in the ResKit would rock!). Don’t dismantle something that appears to deliver...
Give them some more time, money and access to internal resources and just see the magic I bet these guys can do...
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Please give more info (description, links, history) on LookOut.
LookOut was/is a very cool Outlook addin that provides fulltext indexing and search of outlook emails. Its beauty is its simplicity. It does one thing, and does it well. It doesn't have the overhead of many/most other desktop search engines.
One of the other things I thought very cool was the that it used an open source fulltext index/search engine (Lucent.Net, http://incubator.apache.org/projects/lucene.net.html)
MS bought LookOutSoft in 2004 and released LookOut as a free download. And it's still free (if you know where to find it, http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/download.html). But then the product was left to wither on the vine. The team or technology was assimilated and LookOut as a product appears to be in a zombie status. I assume the people were moved onto other MS search projects, like live search, etc.
In summary, LookOutSoft was bought by MS, products released for free (it was available on MS Downloads for a pretty short time and then pulled), quietly allowed to die and disappear, to be replaced with a very different product line (MSN Search & Toolbar)
This is the fate that I hope the tools from Wininternals/Sysinternals can avoid.
I hope this fulfills your request a little...
Yes. Thanks. I don't use outlook so I guess I can ignore it. I see you use captchas. Have you seen http://www.hotcaptcha.com/?
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