Outlook being phased out

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It might be the world's most widely distributed email client, but
Microsoft has
confirmed that it has no intention of further developing Outlook
Express.
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Turns out that someone at MS spoke hastily; they will keep developing
OE. :-/

<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39115720,00.htm>

... Leach has now stepped away from his original comments,
claiming that while Microsoft had originally planned to halt new
work on Outlook Express, the situation has since changed.

"I sat down with the Windows team today, and they tell me my
comments were inaccurate," Leach said Friday. "Outlook Express
was in sustain engineering, but customers asked for continued
improvement, and we are doing that. Microsoft will continue its
innovation around the email experience in Windows."

Leach blamed communication problems for the confusion. "The
Outlook Express team has been in the process of making this
change known inside Microsoft," he said. "They just hadn't
reached me before I left for Asia."
 
John said:
No great loss IMHO. On my system, I completely removed it.

The only concerns I have are that freeware alternatives won't survive
the Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD alliance's "Trusted Computing"
initiative:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

In my opinion, MS is discontinuing the mail reader so that you'll have
to purchase (excuse me, *RENT*) the full blown Outlook as part of
their office suite.

The number of freeware alternatives will shrink and may even start
costing money because of eventual "Trusted Computing" licensing costs.
Hackers out there will come up with software and hardware fixes to
overcome TC for a while until the industry makes changes to the
hardware that can't be overcome. Make no mistake about it, this is a
war and a very serious one. Don't get rid of your old computers.

The corruption of the United States government in allowing MS to
continue and worsen their unabated monopolistic shit just amazes me.

What a fu**ing world.
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I'll be ROFL with increased production of Blaster Virus types...
hopefully the shutdown bug will be fixed next time.

Hey... Blaster Worm is beneficial freeware!
 
POKO said:
I grabbed this post off news.software.readers where a lot of the
regulars here go. For those that do not - you may want to get a clean
copy of Outlook Express to archive or move on to a freeware reader as
I have. What really pisses me off is M$ putting their money into
Hotmail and MSN - I haven't been able to get to my mail at M$ now for
days. I just have it to chat on MSN with a buddy, but those new mails
keep accumulating and I can't get at them!
Another nail in Mr. Gates' eventual downfall!
POKO
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From "The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing" department.

"Outlook Express will be improved, says Microsoft"

"Microsoft has now said it is not planning to stop development on the
world's
most popular email client, Outlook Express, after all. Product manager Dan
Leach told the press earlier this week that no new work was being done on
the product, and all efforts were going to be concentrated on MSN and
Hotmail. Leach now claims that Microsoft had already changed its plans for
Outlook Express before his comments were published, but the changes had not
been communicated to him."

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--- <quote> ---

It might be the world's most widely distributed email client, but
Microsoft has
confirmed that it has no intention of further developing Outlook
Express.

"[Outlook Express] just sits where it is," said Dan Leach, lead
product manager
for Microsoft's information worker product management group. "The
technology
doesn't go away, but no new work is being done. It is consumer email
in an early
iteration, and our investment in the consumer space is now focused
around Hotmail and MSN. That's where we're putting the emphasis in
terms of new investment and new development work."

While Outlook Express has always been most popular with individual
consumers,
many business users have also utilised it, in part because it is part
of its
default Windows install. Microsoft executives are hoping those users
will now
switch to the full-blown Outlook client (and pay for an Office
licence in the
process).

"IMAP is just not a very rich protocol," Steve Conn, Exchange Server
product
manager, told ZDNet Australia during the company's Tech Ed conference.
"The
great majority of people used Outlook Express because they weren't on
a LAN
environment, and Outlook was just too fat for them."

The currently-in-beta Outlook 2003 client has much lower bandwidth
requirements,
he said. In May, Microsoft revealed that it was no longer planning to
release
standalone versions of Internet Explorer, which includes the Outlook
Express
functionality. Future releases will only be made available as part of
the Windows platform.

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If I have to use Hotmail or use the cheezy e-mail program on MSN 8 or even
what Verizon tries to implement in MSN 8 then I will go to Outlook.

Outlook Express is simple, powerful and does what it needs to do.

It follows the KISS principle very well.

Set up MSN 8 for my kids and it took control of all e-mail settings.
When I right clicked a file to send to e-mail, it brought up stupid MSN
Mail.

When I went to my mail icon in Internet Explorer to create a message it
brought up stupid MSN again.

Could not reset the defaults to Outlook Express. Kept bringing up MSN Mail.
After that it met the recycle bin......

MSN 8 has a neat look, but give users option to use Outlook Express.


YK said:
POKO said:
I grabbed this post off news.software.readers where a lot of the
regulars here go. For those that do not - you may want to get a clean
copy of Outlook Express to archive or move on to a freeware reader as
I have. What really pisses me off is M$ putting their money into
Hotmail and MSN - I haven't been able to get to my mail at M$ now for
days. I just have it to chat on MSN with a buddy, but those new mails
keep accumulating and I can't get at them!
Another nail in Mr. Gates' eventual downfall!
POKO
Click to expand...

From "The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing" department.

"Outlook Express will be improved, says Microsoft"

"Microsoft has now said it is not planning to stop development on the
world's
most popular email client, Outlook Express, after all. Product manager Dan
Leach told the press earlier this week that no new work was being done on
the product, and all efforts were going to be concentrated on MSN and
Hotmail. Leach now claims that Microsoft had already changed its plans for
Outlook Express before his comments were published, but the changes had not
been communicated to him."

http://www.internet-magazine.com/news/view.asp?id=3636
From: "Jero" <jero@DELETED!!ralphjacobs.co.uk.invalid>
Newsgroups: england.chat,
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress,
news.software.readers
Followup-To: microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

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Follow-ups set to
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

--- <quote> ---

It might be the world's most widely distributed email client, but
Microsoft has
confirmed that it has no intention of further developing Outlook
Express.

"[Outlook Express] just sits where it is," said Dan Leach, lead
product manager
for Microsoft's information worker product management group. "The
technology
doesn't go away, but no new work is being done. It is consumer email
in an early
iteration, and our investment in the consumer space is now focused
around Hotmail and MSN. That's where we're putting the emphasis in
terms of new investment and new development work."

While Outlook Express has always been most popular with individual
consumers,
many business users have also utilised it, in part because it is part
of its
default Windows install. Microsoft executives are hoping those users
will now
switch to the full-blown Outlook client (and pay for an Office
licence in the
process).

"IMAP is just not a very rich protocol," Steve Conn, Exchange Server
product
manager, told ZDNet Australia during the company's Tech Ed conference.
"The
great majority of people used Outlook Express because they weren't on
a LAN
environment, and Outlook was just too fat for them."

The currently-in-beta Outlook 2003 client has much lower bandwidth
requirements,
he said. In May, Microsoft revealed that it was no longer planning to
release
standalone versions of Internet Explorer, which includes the Outlook
Express
functionality. Future releases will only be made available as part of
the Windows platform.

--- </quote> ---
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