Can someone let me know why the "integration" between X1 and Newsgator is such a big deal? It's not even really integrated…Outlook just provides the environment for both apps to run in.
Is it because it's the first bundled package for searching MS Outlook contents effectively? Maybe it's just because I'm a techie, but I've been using Lookout from Lookoutsoft.com to do this for months.
The best part is that right now, Lookout is free, sure they will charge you 29.95 once it moves out of BETA and goes live, but the deal from Newsgator/X1 is $99USD. A combined NewsGator/Lookout solution would still only be $50. A bit pricey in my book, but hey, until MS gets around to doing a good job of indexing e-mail in Outlook PST files…these are our choices.
1. I was thinking the same thing. I tried X1 awhile back and was not all that impressed. Yes, it's faster than the godawful built-in Outlook search, but paying $100 for faster search on email + newsgator isn't that big a deal, especially with Google entering the picture with GMail which will probably index the mail faster than X1 anyway ... and do it at only the cost of showing a few targeted ads. I hope somebody breaks it down what's so important and revolutionary with these two products.
Posted at 4:55AM on Dec 19th 2005 by TDavid