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jublee

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Feb 3, 2009, 12:33:52 PM2/3/09
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Hi All
I seem to be only to get Windows Live Hotmail not Windows Live Mail and
according to information found they are the same - Windows Live Hotmail
replacing Windows Live Mail.
I tried to access and download Windows Live Mail from Windows Live site
and all I got was Windows Live Hotmail.
Am I doing something wrong?:eek:


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Ravi Gupta

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Feb 3, 2009, 1:10:37 PM2/3/09
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Windows Live Hotmail is the name of free email service provided by
Microsoft.

Windows Live Mail is the name of free email client provided by Microsoft.

You can access Windows Live Hotmail through Windows Live Mail(apart from
browsers).

This is the classic example of Microsoft`s Software + Services initiative.

Regards

Ravi


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Bob Lucas

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Feb 3, 2009, 1:32:24 PM2/3/09
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The names are very confusing. However, Windows Live Mail and
Windows Live Hotmail are NOT the same.

Windows Live Mail is a successor to Outlook Express (Win XP) and
Windows Mail (Vista). It is a mail client (and newsreader)
program, which resides on your local computer. Windows Live Mail
allows you to access mail accounts via POP3, IMAP and HTTP
servers.

Windows Live Hotmail is a new name for Hotmail, which has been
around for many years. Last year, Hotmail had a facelift (with a
few enhancements and a new name). It started life a web-based
mail utility, and resides on a central server at Microsoft.
Consequently, you can use a web-browser (such as Microsoft
Internet Explorer) to access Windows Live Hotmail accounts.

You can also use Windows Live Mail send and receive emails via
mail accounts with various service providers. Consequently, you
don't need to subscribe to a Windows Live Hotmail account, merely
to use Windows Live Mail. However, if you have a Live identity
based upon an email account with @hotmail.com, @live.com or
@msn.com, you can use WLMail to send and receive emails via the
Hotmail HTTP servers. WLMail can also synchronize you contacts
list on the central Live server.

You can download Windows Live Mail from
http://download.live.com/wlmail.

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N. Miller

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Feb 3, 2009, 1:51:43 PM2/3/09
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You are attributing some sense of orderly nomenclature to a company which
has demonstrated an entirely disorderly method of nomenclature. They renamed
"MS Internet Mail and News" as "MS Outlook Express", leading people to
believe that Outlook Express was a "lite" version of Outlook, when it is
actually a separate product with only superficial similarities.

When Microsoft undertook to create "Windows Live", they renamed Hotmail from
"MSN Hotmail" to "Windows Live Mail". Then they created a stand alone
desktop mail client, which installs as an application, and named it as,
"Windows Live Mail desktop".

Then, for reasons unclear to anybody, they renamed "Windows Live Mail" as
Windows Live Hotmail", and renamed "Windows Live Mail desktop" as "Windows
Live Mail".

And, because of the way that the Usenet is organized (which they didn't
invent), they couldn't just rename this group.

Finally, this newsgroup, 'microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop' is for
discussion of issue related to the desktop email client, now called,
"Windows Live Mail", and is not appropriate for the online email service,
now called, "Windows Live Hotmail".

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...winston

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Feb 3, 2009, 1:27:39 PM2/3/09
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Windows Live Mail requires a download and installation.
See this blog entry for the information on the System Rqmts, Release Notes, and download options
http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F92775FC46A390CA!389.entry


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D. Spencer Hines

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Feb 3, 2009, 2:11:18 PM2/3/09
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Who's on first?

This would make an excellent SNL skit. <g>

Yes, it's...

Nomenclature Gone Wild.

The word at the time was that Outlook Express was a faster, simpler version
of Outlook, a personal email client and newsreader that could be brought to
market much quicker than Outlook.

Not True?
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...winston

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Feb 4, 2009, 1:40:56 AM2/4/09
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MS Internet Mail and News(IMN), in existence prior to OE, was a free email and news client released after Windows 95 and after IE3. OE didn't show up until 1997 and was packaged with IE4. IMN, unlike OE that supported Html, only accommodated rich and plain text.

Nomenclature also impacted the first included Win95 email client Windows Exchange. Circa the release of dun 1.2 and first included with the availability of Win95 OSR2, Windows Exchange was renamed Windows Messaging(to avoid confusion with the corporate Windows Exchange 4.0 which replaced Microsoft Mail). Windows Messaging was also included with Win98 and NT4.0, though unlike Win95 it was not installed by default(available on the o/s cd).


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jublee

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Feb 4, 2009, 5:56:28 AM2/4/09
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Thank you all for clearing up my misconception of Windows Live Mail
being the same as Windows Live Hotmail.


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Earle Horton

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Feb 28, 2009, 1:09:21 PM2/28/09
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Hotmail is Windows Live Mail is Windows Live Hotmail. To make things more
confusing Windows Live Mail is also a desktop application that can access
your @hotmail.com, @live.com, @msn.com and other email accounts. Download
Windows Live Mail from here http://download.live.com. Hope this addresses
your concern.

Earle

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jublee

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Earle Horton;980144 Wrote:
> Hotmail is Windows Live Mail is Windows Live Hotmail. To make things
> more
> confusing Windows Live Mail is also a desktop application that can
> access
> your @hotmail.com, @live.com, @msn.com and other email accounts.
> Download
> Windows Live Mail from here 'Essentials - Windows Live'
> (http://download.live.com). Hope this addresses
> your concern.
>
> Earle
>
> "Jublee Wrote" <Jublee Wrote@xxxxxx> escribió en el
> mensaje de noticias
> news:1540AA84-EB44-4ABA-AB30-2E032746AC94@xxxxxx> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "jublee" wrote:
> > >> > > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Hi All
> > > >> I seem to be only to get Windows Live Hotmail not Windows Live Mail
> > > and
> > > >> according to information found they are the same - Windows Live
> > > Hotmail
> > > >> replacing Windows Live Mail.
> > > >> I tried to access and download Windows Live Mail from Windows Live
> > > site
> > > >> and all I got was Windows Live Hotmail.
> > > >> Am I doing something wrong?:eek:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> jublee
> > > >> > > > > > >

Thanks Earle
I am finally getting it :shock::shock:
Cheers
jublee


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George Valenti

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Feb 28, 2009, 12:00:49 PM2/28/09
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the site is http://download.live.com/

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