Microsoft to Acquire Xobni?
Apparently Microsoft is close to acquiring Xobni. At Least that’s what TechCrunch thinks. It always seemed like a feature to me, so I guess I can’t say I’m surprised particularly given that:
- It adds some useful productivity functionality.
- Microsoft added anything innovative in years.
- It was already implemented as an outlook plug in.
Hopefully Xobni won’t suffer the same fate as LOOKout. LOOKout added search to Outlook, and Microsoft acquired the company to fill that hole. LOOKout was a great product: Simple and effective. Microsoft apparently baked the technology into Windows Desktop Search, which is what you get now when you try to go to the lookout link. Sadly, Windows Desktop Search is a bit clumsy and bloated. There is still robust demand for the original LOOKout product, which is still available from old archives on the web. Here’s a discussion that points to a few of them.
And in other news, people are still widely decrying the death of email in various places.
Posted: March 3rd, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: email | View Comments