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popcorn

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Aug 11, 2009, 10:55:37 AM8/11/09
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Does anyone know if Microsoft will ever go back to Outlook Express?
Hopefully, something will be better than the present mail configuration.

Dave

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Aug 11, 2009, 11:17:07 AM8/11/09
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It's doubtful.
Windows Mail seems to have been a temporary product, rushed to meet the
release of Vista.
It was soon replaced with Windows Live Mail, which seems to be the heir
apparent to OE.


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Gary VanderMolen

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Aug 11, 2009, 11:26:55 AM8/11/09
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No, Microsoft will not go back to Outlook Express. Windows Mail
has also been abandoned in favor of Windows Live Mail.

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mac

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Aug 11, 2009, 11:32:46 AM8/11/09
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> Does anyone know if Microsoft will ever go back to Outlook Express?
> Hopefully, something will be better than the present mail configuration.

Too add to the other comments, the next MS Operating System, Windows7, does
NOT even have a mail client built in to it.
(On general Availability from October 22).


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Steve Cochran

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Aug 11, 2009, 1:46:27 PM8/11/09
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Not unless they get someone on top who has a modicum of sense.

steve

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popcorn

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Aug 11, 2009, 2:43:56 PM8/11/09
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mac/steve, if I understand you correctly, then when Win 7 does hit the
market, we will have to to a outside mail client? I don't really mind
because back in the early days I used a outside client with no problems at
all. Maybe that's what I should think about now. I haven't looked at it in
a long time, but Eudora wasn't so bad.


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Gary VanderMolen

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Aug 11, 2009, 3:19:42 PM8/11/09
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You're not limited to an "outside client".
Windows 7 has a prominent link to downloading "Microsoft Essentials"
which includes Windows Live Mail.


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R. C. White

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Aug 11, 2009, 3:23:35 PM8/11/09
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Hi, Popcorn.

> when Win 7 does hit the market, we will have to to a outside mail client?

Correct. But you can include Microsoft's Windows Live Mail - and Outlook,
of course - in your list of "outside" options.

WLM looks and acts a lot like OE/WM - although there are significant
differences "under the hood".

RC
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Steve Cochran

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Aug 12, 2009, 8:01:58 AM8/12/09
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That is correct.

steve

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