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I tried Xobni (post yahoo acquiring) in a 'corporate setup' and found it to be a memory hog, The startup time is ridiculous with increasing mailbox size. I am better off searching outlook based on filters than using Xobni. And now adding more gadgets to outlook will just make it an obese guy in designer clothes.

I wonder who uses Xobni? Any genuine Xobni users here?

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If you tried it right after we added Yahoo Mail support, that must have been 2008. We made a ton of performance improvements in early 2009. I talked about that process, and the fun of developing in Outlook, here: http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2009/04/investing-a-million-bucks-i...

folks on Outlook 2007 will also find a huge OL performance boost from upgrading to SP2, wherein the fixed about thirty Outlook perf bugs, some of which can be tickled by their addin API's!

Really? I haven't noticed it to be a resource hog and I find the search to be worlds better than Outlook, which some how manages to miss the obvious yet find the obscure every time I search.

My mailbox is a pretty good size, but perhaps I haven't reached that threshold yet.

Outlook, which some how manages to miss the obvious

I've noticed a quirk in Outlook 2007 that if I add an extra character to the search then hit backspace, it will find items it didn't find before.

I use Xobni a lot. The two things I find it very valuable for are:

- seeing the Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter profiles of people who email me. Adding some social context to the emails that come into my inbox is really great.

- easily finding someone's phone number. Xobni automatically extracts people's phone numbers from the emails in your inbox, so I often find that if I want to get someone's number, I'll search for their name in the Xobni pane in Outlook, and the person's number will be right there.

I haven't found any performance issues at all. Outlook for me is just as fast as it is without Xobni.

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