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Charles,
MS Outlook Express 6 is not Microsoft Outlook! Just like VB.NET is not VB6!


"Outlook Newsreader" to Herfried, myself and others implies Microsoft
Outlook, not Microsoft Outlook Express.

For Differences between Outlook & Outlook Express see:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=257824

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olexpr.htm

http://office.microsoft.com/assista...ID=HA010565781033&CTT=6&Origin=EC010553071033

As I posted elsewhere in this thread, there are products now that allow
Outlook to read & respond to be a newsreader.

Hope this helps
Jay

Charles Law said:
That's what it says in the title bar of my newsreader. In Help | About, it
says MS Outlook Express 6.

Charles
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Hi Jay

I understand that it might imply Microsoft Outlook, but I am only quoting
from Microsoft's program.

If there is any confusion, it is in Outlook Express. If you choose View |
Goto | News in Outlook 2002, you launch a program that proclaims itself to
be "Microsoft Outlook Newsreader", but which is in fact Outlook Express 6.

Doesn't this just go to highlight the inconsistency that is perpetuated
throughout Windows applications (started by Microsoft, I fear) where name
and version and build just blur into an amorphous quagmire. It is, after
all, just a cynical marketing ploy (of which, I actually believe, Bill Gates
would not wholly approve) to confuse Joe Public, and make him think that he
was getting a cutting edge application, answering tomorrows problems today,
when it is actually yesterday's solution to last night's problems.

There is no better example than the monthly magazine to which I subscribe.
Two weeks ago, I received the new edition by post. It is the August edition.
It would have been written in May, so by the time August comes around, it
will be three months out of date. That's a whole quarter. What is the point?
Who are they fooling?

It's the same in the fashion industry. It's supposed to be summer here. Can
you buy a pair of shorts? No, because the shops are in their autumn/winter
collection. Who wants to buy a jumper and overcoat at this time? No wonder
some of the big high street names are struggling. They go into sale early
because they have stocked the wrong things (because they are a whole season
adrift) and they wonder why they are failing.

Anyway, I think I may have wandered from the plot a tad.

Thanks for the reference/link. I think I'll just crawl back into my box.

Charles


Jay B. Harlow said:
Charles,
MS Outlook Express 6 is not Microsoft Outlook! Just like VB.NET is not VB6!


"Outlook Newsreader" to Herfried, myself and others implies Microsoft
Outlook, not Microsoft Outlook Express.

For Differences between Outlook & Outlook Express see:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=257824

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olexpr.htm

http://office.microsoft.com/assista...ID=HA010565781033&CTT=6&Origin=EC010553071033

As I posted elsewhere in this thread, there are products now that allow
Outlook to read & respond to be a newsreader.

Hope this helps
Jay
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