Paul Allen wants to clean your Outlook in-box
It's been quite a while since Paul Allen worked to make Microsoft's products better, but he's doing just that.
While he hasn't rejoined the software maker he left more than 25 years ago, Allen is backing an effort to improve Microsoft Outlook. Allen's Vulcan Ventures announced on Monday the launch of its Xiant subsidiary and a beta of its first product, Xiant Filer. It is available as a free, 60-day trial, and Vulcan plans to eventually sell downloads of the product directly as well as through other Web sites.
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"It's a return of sorts to Paul's roots," Vulcan Vice President Chris Purcell said in a statement. "Xiant Filer started as a personal project to help Paul keep up with heavy e-mail traffic. It worked so well we all started using it, which led us to take it to market."
Allen has been involved in a number of projects in and out of the tech world since leaving Microsoft. However, he has generally been in areas that steer well clear of Microsoft. Vulcan has also backed Gist, another Outlook ad-on.
With Xiant Filer, Allen is wading into competition with Microsoft and several companies that make their own Outlook add-ons. The product sounds similar in concept to Xobni, another tool for better managing an Outlook in-box. Xobni exited beta earlier this year.
During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina. 
Typo: "your Outlook in-box" not "you Outlook in-box".
It is a grammatical error, not a typographical error.
It may not be a grammatical error. It could be a virus decided to randomly remove that r...
I used it and I hated it. Even my IBM collegues prefer to use Outlook
He should invest his money in creating a new, universal email application. Outlook is flawed. Personal users have too many storage limits, when they should not have any. The PST file is the most unstable file ever created.
Start fresh. Create an alternative to Outlook. An email program that allows users to store emails to the capacity of the hard drive, not some outdated Microsoft proprietary file format that gets corrupt after 5 GB. There are thousands of posts all over the place requesting such a feature.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830336
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932086/en-us
Its been widely reported that the resolution suggested in that article works for no one
See how Microsoft lies... "20 GB limit... 2 GB limit..."
Someone needs to create a new application to kill Outlook!
"To resolve this problem, install the update that is described in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
933493 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933493/ ) Description of the update for Outlook 2007: April 13, 2007 "
That update is also included in Outlook 2007 SP2, so getting that will save you some time as it includes other updates as well. I have a 10GB mailbox, abcd2009 says right above he/she has a 12GB mailbox. So those are some actual sources, where are your "widely reported" and "thousands of posts" of sources?
Have you even installed this update or SP2?
Do you work for Microsoft? You are missing the point.
I just gave you a support article FROM MICROSOFT - WHERE MICROSOFT explicitly states, "Outlook 2007 PST files should be kept at 2 GB Maximum"
Why would they state that in one article and state that such PST files can handle 20 GB in another article?
They are F*ing liars! This BS is what drives millions to Apple - where they are very clear about what there hardware and software can or cannot do.
It would be great if a software company could capitalize on this with an OUTLOOK KILLER!!!
My main point is that people want to keep ALL of their emails on THEIR HARD DRIVE in a SINGLE FILE - no matter the size!
With today's technology, the fact that we cannot do that is a f*ing joke and shame on Microsoft and the dooshbag that invented Outlook
Cheers!
It's pretty clear that the two knowledge base articles are separate of each other. If you do not have the updated patch/service pack update, then you have the lower 2Gb limit. If you have updated several years ago as the majority of the planet would have done by now for free, then that limit is 20Gb.
Lies? No. Reader misunderstanding on your part? Possibly.
I'm sorry that you feel so strongly against Outlook. There are alternatives to this that you can use happily then. Try Thunderbird, Gmail, heck- even Eudora.
The idea that users want to keep all their mail in a single file- that's a dangerous scenario in case of drive failure. I certainly do not want all my eggs in one basket. I would prefer the ability to keep it protected on different systems/drives/resources.
A single file can be backed up and restored much faster than searching through archives to find just the right one and then realizing that you had the wrong date so you have to go and search again. IT people are such useless morons. They would rather give you 7 PST files to deal with instead of just one. Good luck trying to find that one email that you need.
You people always bash and hate on MS and ask..."OMG...People are still using that?"
The fact of the matter is MS has the MAJORITY across the board on software in use. They have the most popular OSes (Like it or hate it, you still talk about it), they have the most popular Office suite and they have the most popular browser. Maybe not is your little twisted circle of friends because you have brainwashed all your family and friends into thinking MS is Satan incarnate. But without MS, we would all still be typing in DOS commands and recompiling our Kernals everytime a new driver came out...ooooo...ahhhhh....what fun. Even if it wasn't Linux, it would be the Macs. Let's see, how about we start up a Apple domain server or email server? Oh wait, there isn't one. We would all be using MacTalk on a P2P network. wow. uber.
Grow up. Join the new millenia and put your damn toys away.
I want to join the new millenia - What do you use Windows on? HP, Dell? Curious...
- by raggy1222 June 24, 2009 6:21 AM PDT
- Please Ina right something useful for a change...
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