Windows Mail - no more!

[Hugh Jeego]

As most of you know, with Win 7, you don't have any inbuilt email program
any longer. I used to use Outlook Express up till XP and then Windows Mail
with Vista for newsgroup reading and have been using Outlook in one version
or another for email for years.

With the lack of a newsgroup reader when I go to Win 7 when it finally is on
sale to the public, what news readers will people be using? Outlook 2007
cant handle them and I suppose that is as it should be. I don't like the
idea of having my email on Microsoft servers or getting them to pick it up
for me so I am so glad I have Outlook 2007 for that so I can get it off my
own domain onto my computers. What will people who get Windows 7 do then if
they don't have Outlook? I would hate to be a business that doesn't use
Outlook and have relied on Outlook Express then have to use Windows Live
Mail. It just isn't secure enough for me no matter what Microsoft may say. I
know what they mean with "Cloud Computing" but I have real issues with
letting all my business secrets be handled on a server I don't control.

 

[Dave]

So far, I'm using:
Windows Mail (email)
Windows Live Mail (email and these MS newsgroups)
Thunderbird (main email) + Lightning (calendar) [replaces Outlook 2003]
Agent 5.0 (other newsgroups).

And I can use Outlook Express in the Virtual Windows XP.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You seem to have an erroneous concept of what Windows Live Mail
is. You can configure it to be just as web-unaware as WM is.
Incidentally, I am posting this message from Windows Mail in Win7.