Anyone prefer Live Mail over Windows Mail?

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Cameron Snyder

Could you take a few moments to hit on some features you prefer over Windows
Mail or how it differs from other "webmail" you've used? Is it that you can
just keep your ISP mail separate without using their pop and smtp servers?
What?

Thanks
 
Cameron Snyder said:
Could you take a few moments to hit on some features you prefer over
Windows Mail or how it differs from other "webmail" you've used? Is it
that you can just keep your ISP mail separate without using their pop and
smtp servers? What?
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I use Outlook 2003 and 2007 for email (and contacts and appointments), but
it's so incredibly slow, and badly designed. I am looking out for something
better, but not found anything suitable so far.

The Office Live Workspace beta has just been made available to UK users, so
hopefully I will at last be able to share the .pst file between computers,
but I have not looked into it yet.

ss.
 
Cameron Snyder said:
Could you take a few moments to hit on some features you prefer over
Windows Mail or how it differs from other "webmail" you've used? Is it
that you can just keep your ISP mail separate without using their pop and
smtp servers? What?

Thanks
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Live Mail is faster than Windows Mail, and looks nicer. I have never like
web mail so I prefer to use a mail client on my computer.
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
I use Outlook 2003 and 2007 for email (and contacts and appointments), but
it's so incredibly slow, and badly designed. I am looking out for
something better, but not found anything suitable so far.
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I use Outlook 2003 and 2007. It's anything but slow. Maybe your hardware
can't handle it or you have hundreds or thousands of e-mails sitting there.
You should do some maintenance and clean up your inbox. Calender function
works extremly well. What don't you like?
 
Dick Hurtz said:
Live Mail is faster than Windows Mail, and looks nicer. I have never like
web mail so I prefer to use a mail client on my computer.
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Thanks for the responsive reply. I concur with your client preference and I
thought that Live Mail was web based. Learned something there. I use Windows
Mail now, used Outlook and Express in previous Windows and I'm trying to
understand the allure of Live Mail from those who prefer it. So what exactly
is faster?
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
I use Outlook 2003 and 2007 for email (and contacts and appointments), but
it's so incredibly slow, and badly designed. I am looking out for
something better, but not found anything suitable so far.

The Office Live Workspace beta has just been made available to UK users,
so hopefully I will at last be able to share the .pst file between
computers, but I have not looked into it yet.

ss.
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I must not be a power user of email so I don't quite get how an email client
could be so slow, but no matter. I'm looking for benefits of Live Mail. So
is the benefit of Live Mail a central store of contacts and email that can
be accessed from multiple machines?
 
Bill Yanaire said:
I use Outlook 2003 and 2007. It's anything but slow. Maybe your hardware
can't handle it or you have hundreds or thousands of e-mails sitting
there. You should do some maintenance and clean up your inbox. Calender
function works extremly well. What don't you like?
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My hardware is certainly powerful enough. My laptop is powerful for its age
(2004, with Outlook 2003) and my desktop has a E6600 C2D with twin Raptor
10,000rpm disks in RAID-0 (Outlook 2007).

I have two POP3 email accounts, one large IMAP account with lots of folders
that incoming mail gets sorted into and two Hotmail accounts using the
Outlook Connector. Outlook runs like treacle.

ss.
 
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