Lots of people disagree with me, but I see *no* advantage in having an
But if there is no DISadvantage, what's the issue? When they're reliable, I prefer things to be integrated; less to fiddle with
and maintain, etc.. In most ingegrations all it amounts to is more than one dedicated module and maybe calls from one to another
in some of the larger ones. MSOffice is a prime example.
Its just the law of the jungle that when 2 different applications are combined there are going to be compromises. It always happens.
The upside is perhaps you have a tiny bit less resources being used. But in this day and age that's not even important as neither
of these apps are huge resource hogs.
You can run 2 instances of Windows Live Messenger concurrently (for 2 different accounts) so I wonder if its possible to do the same
with Windows Live Mail? Or maybe use Outlook for email and Windows Live Mail for Usenet?