IE7 Is Coming This Month Are you Ready?

[Alan]

So if someone wants to maintain (more or less) the look and feel of OE in
their email client, they'll have to use MS Outlook in Vista?

Alan

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I sure wouldn't consider Outlook as having a similar "look and feel" to
Outlook Express. I'm pretty sure the developers of both would be offended.

I haven't spent enough time in Windows Mail to say how different it is from
Outlook Express--I don't think it'll drive most folks crazy, though.
Windows Mail is a different critter from Windows Live Mail Desktop, which I
haven't even looked at yet.

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[Jim Higgins]

From what I have now read of Windows Live Mail Desktop, in that ng, it seems
like an insufferably detailed and unnecessarily complicated. If I have this
right I understood from you that Windows Mail is separate so when it does
come out I can get it apart from Vista?

 

[Alan]

Hi Bill,

Don't tell the developers of either OE or Outlook I said that. :>

Alan

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I suspect that Windows Mail won't be available separately from Vista--it'll
be the email client that is a part of Vista, just as Outlook Express is with
XP. Windows Live Mail Desktop is ad-supported and will evolve over time.
Changes to Outlook Express have been few and far between, and the same may
well be true of Windows Mail.

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[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I'm not likely to! I can't guarantee that they aren't reading here, but it
is relatively unlikely, I think <G>
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[Alan]

Good morning Bill,

Sure, if people have XP on their computers then they have no choice -- in
the USA at least -- but to have IE6 and O/E on their computers (whether or
not they choose to use either of these apps.)

Historically, O/E been more or less independent of the O/S, and has been the
"companion" of IE. O/E was found/used on many other Operating Systems, going
back to WIN 95.

From what you're saying, with the advent of Vista, it sounds as if IE7 and
Outlook Express have finally gotten a divorce.

Alan

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I see it more as a name change by one of the partners, than a divorce. I
really haven't used it enough to speak knowledgably about it, I'm afaid,
though.

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