Re: Oulook was called Lookout for a good reasons
"If you do then you'd better have a plan to move away from all MS products ready to go."
Or just backtrack all MS products to the pre-cloudy versions - I'm happily running older MS products direct off my boot drive (and behind a suitable hardware firewall) and hardly ever lose any work time (mores the pity':-( ) due to some borked MS patches that have not been properly validated prior to being pushed out onto their servers for use by those who've paid through the nose for a 24/7 service.