In the past few days I’ve received a flurry of email from frantic Lookout users asking how they can get a copy of the product. I thought I’d help them out and go dig out the location for downloading from Microsoft, but after a fairly deep search, it appears it has been removed from the Microsoft site, as well as other distribution sites like CNet.
Since I no longer work for Microsoft, I don’t know why. I’m not surprised, though, as the product is getting a bit stale. If you are one of the many folks using the product, I don’t know what the support plan from Microsoft is. I don’t have a copy of it myself any longer.
If you do know how to get a copy, please post a comment for others!
The following link seems to work for Lookout v 1.30. Is this the latest version of Lookout before it went all MS Desktop Search on us?
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Lookout_d4808.html
Enjoy,
-Mike
Install Bell’s and Whistles for outlook and enable lookout via the options. It works well. MS appears to have disabled the feature.
You have to love the http://www.webarchive.org they have the look out site, including downloads hosted on lookout.com back to the inception of the product. The last version of the site, before M$ hijacked the url back to MDS is http://web.archive.org/web/20060831223528/http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/download.html
The only thing I don’t love about Lookout is that I cannot tell the difference between Read and Unread E-mail in the search results…..
If you live in Outlook like I do, then Lookout is an absolute must-have application. If you don’t, then Google Desktop Search and Copernic blow Microsoft Desktop Search away.
You can make it work again..
http://www.scw.us/win/FixingLookout/
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I tried it so often to make Lookout work again, but it was just annoying! I was so desperate, because I like Lookout so much, but it makes to sense when it will not be developed further! So I tried other Tools and work now with Lookeen, because I need a tool which works with no complications with Outlook 07!