Nerds only: pulling the plug on Xobni

I mentioned two days ago that I'd liked the idea of the spiffy Outlook-indexer Xobni, but that when I'd tried a beta version in January it had slowed my PC to a point of paralysis. The new release has been getting a lot of buzz, so I thought I'd try it again. No dice. After two days of torpor I have just taken it off the machine. Made the already-glacial startup process of Outlook (under Vista) almost interminable. Used so many CPUs and -- especially -- so much memory that the computer wasn't good for anything else. Could just be me. Could just be my computer. Could be the evil Vista (on the computer where I installed Xobni). Could be entirely different for you. Just reporting my experience. And maybe it's not just me. When you uninstall Xobni, it asks you why. The choices: "Please tell us why you uninstalled so we can improve: " 1. I wasn't using it. " 2. It used too many computer resources " 3. Outlook froze during normal operation " 4. It made Outlook startup too slow. " 5. Sidebar disappeared or stopped loading " 6. It slowed down my Outlook. " 7. I just temporarily uninstalled and will reinstall. " 8. It did not index my mail properly " 9. Outlook crashed" I checked 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9. But when they have a new version...

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2008/05/nerds-only-pulling-the-plug-on-xobni/8024/