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With the release of the paid Xobni Plus product as of Xobni's 1.8 release, Xobni withdrew from its free version the capability to index multiple
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The initial releases of Xobni were criticized by tech bloggers and other journalists for stability and performance problems, as documented on the company's community forum. Other reviewers have criticized Xobni for monopolizing system resources, disabling other standard
Outlook functionality like
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archives, no ads, and one-year support. In 2010, the company added more revenue-generating products, including a service to share Xobni data across multiple devices, and gadgets that bring third-party data into
Outlook. The company promoted an enterprise business to sell directly and through
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partnerships; as well as a platform for developers to create gadgets to run within Xobni's sidebar in
Outlook. Xobni announced localized versions of their Outlook product (free and paid) for the French and German markets in 2010. It announced its first for
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calendar appointments, and also deleting
Outlook archives. Users have reported that these issues persist even in production (non-beta) versions. Some speculate these difficulties derive from engineering CPU and I/O intensive indexing on the
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email archives. The company hinted at plans to offer the same functionality for other email clients. When the
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