Comments on: Microsoft buys Lookout to boost search

The acquisition comes two weeks after the launch of a revamped MSN search.

[Jonathan]

MS innovation = Buy another company

Ahh the best of MS innovation rears its stupid head.

[tomleonard]

An Excellent Buy for Microsoft

Microsoft made a sound investment in buy Lookout Software! I've been using a beta version of Lookout with my Outlook 2003 and found it to be the best and fastest search tool I've ever used! When I submitted a suggestion for adding features I got an almost instant response from one of the owners... who thanked me and gave me some undocumented tips on how to do more complex searches of both my email and other folders on my PC. A great product and MS was very wise to buy the company and incorporate their work into MS products and services. I consider MS's action "smart" not an "easy out" as some will suggest!

[dirk100]

Yeah thank you Microsoft. That was a very wise decision and helped a lot of people. Oh, by the way this is irony. Thanks to Microsoft, there is no lookout for Office 2007. I do not know why they did that, but lookout is gone. For all of you who miss lookout, there is a tool very similiar to lookout. It is called lookeen (www.lookeen.net). When you liked lookout, I am pretty sure you like lookeen as well.