Outlook 2007 search should be like Lookout - very fast!!!!

[hrhodes]

The indexing and search capabilities of Outlook 2007 should be as fast as
that of the Lookout add on was for Outlook 2003 and should pop up in a
seperate window. I had Lookout index over 10,000 e-mails and the results from
any search was extremely fast.

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[Roady [MVP]]

I expect the speed to increase some more when it goes out of BETA (both
Outlook and the search WDS engine). The performance of Search is quite good
for me with a 1.5GB pst-file and near to 100.000 items. The results display
in only tenths of a second.

Why would you want a seperate window? The downside of that is that you can't
have full Outlook functionality for your results. I use the All Mail Items
"folder" which is above every folder list when doing a mailbox wide search.

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The indexing and search capabilities of Outlook 2007 should be as fast as
that of the Lookout add on was for Outlook 2003 and should pop up in a
seperate window. I had Lookout index over 10,000 e-mails and the results
from
any search was extremely fast.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Once the index is built, it should be just as fast, especially by RTM.

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[kwestphal]

Outlook 2007 deliberately breaks Lookout compatibility.
http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1076

I depend on outlook cause the email indexing and search is so fast.
The Outlook 2007 PM should be shot for breaking this functionality.

Why do all the work on Office 2007 improving the UI
the integration and then deliberately break a great tool.

i don't want to try a new beta product, desktop search
or spend hours indexing my entire PC, or take someone's word
that it's .10's of seconds... i don't have time for that. Nor do i trust the
accessment.

I love the ribbon, the new UI, but without Lookout integration,
my company won't be upgrading to Office 2007 with this deficiency.
I want my old tool to interoperate or I want outlook to provide
Lookout integrated w/i outlook, not yet another "external" tool.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Here is the answer to your question:

i don't want to try a new beta product, desktop search
or spend hours indexing my entire PC, or take someone's word
that it's .10's of seconds... i don't have time for that. Nor do i trust the
accessment.

Outlook 2007 is currently beta. You are already using beta software and
hence something broke. According to your statement, you shouldn't be
using it.

Patrick Schmid

 

[kwestphal]

Hey Patrick

my test scope is verifying Office 2007 and Vista
compatibility with a suite of existing apps.

i've beta tested 3.1, Win95, NT, 2000 and XP.
your response isn't particularly useful.
and doesn't address my concern.

Beta's previously were beta's now they are more like alphas
and breaking user workflow and compatibility was
strictly verbotten.

i shouldn't have to try all kinds of additional beta products if
i have a specific test horizon i'm working on.

Outlook sucks on search and forces users to abandon a perfectly
working (non beta ) solution. if you have any influence with
MSFT by all means fix the problem. otherwise tend to your own.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

i shouldn't have to try all kinds of additional beta products if

i have a specific test horizon i'm working on.

Simply consider WDS3 to be another piece of the Office Beta except it
has a separate installer. Really not that big a deal.
I wouldn't be surprised by the way if the technology from lookout went
into WDS 3. Just look at WDS3 being the next version of Lookout.

Outlook sucks on search and forces users to abandon a perfectly
working (non beta ) solution. if you have any influence with
MSFT by all means fix the problem. otherwise tend to your own.

Which problem? I have a fine working powerful instant search capability
in my Outlook 2007.

You can't accuse Microsoft of not providing a fast search capability
while you are at the same time not willing to try the one provided. You
are either in for the full beta ride, or you are not. Rather simple.

Patrick Schmid