Re: Why is Fax still seperate?

<Nicholas> wrote in message news:OizScnvJGHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>I was thinking it will at last dump the decade old Windows Fax and go for
>integration in Windows Mail...
>
> BTW, I can still see some Windows 95 designs there...

Fax being separate started with the birth of Outlook Express, and the death
of Windows Messaging (which was previously the Microsoft Exchange client in
Windows 9x, and included Fax support). The Fax support *should* install as
a printer driver, and you send faxes like you would print documents; I
actually preferred to create single-page faxes using either Word or
Publisher, and *print* them via the Fax driver when I still had a fax/modem.
The Windows 9x bits are largely because e-mail has made the Fax component
rather moribund (along with the ubiquity of Outlook and Windows Mail/Outlook
Express).



Christopher L. Estep