New to Vista - Couple questions, Live Mail and Communities

[Don]

Hey gang,

Installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit over the weekend, dual booting with my XP
Pro install, so far I am finding myself liking it more and more.

I have set up newsgroups in windows mail, and email access. I really like
some of the features of windows mail versus the older Outlook Express,
especially the calendar feature, and the spellcheck included. I use Outlook
2002 ( from Office XP ) on my XP Pro install, mainly for the calendar
feature, so was pleased to see this included in windows mail. Not going to
try to install Office XP on my Vista, as I understand there would be issues
with that. I think what I have with Windows Mail though, will serve me ok.

I see where another program, Windows Live Mail is available as well. I
checked on the link I found, and really did not see a lot about it. What is
the general consensus here, is the Windows Live Mail program much better
than the included windows mail program? I don't really understand what the
differences are here.

Secondly, as far as the Microsoft newsgroups, I am using the Microsoft
Communities server at this time to connect to them. It keeps prompting me to
sign in to have access to community features. I presume this is the old
passport login, never really used mine for anything but I was able to sign
in with it - not really sure what this does for me, any real benefits to
signing in? If it is mainly to have something like Messenger running, I am
really not into that, have no real need for that at this time.

Thanks for any tips,



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Don

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[Guest]

Hey gang,

Installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit over the weekend, dual booting with my XP
Pro install, so far I am finding myself liking it more and more.

I have set up newsgroups in windows mail, and email access. I really like
some of the features of windows mail versus the older Outlook Express,
especially the calendar feature, and the spellcheck included. I use
Outlook 2002 ( from Office XP ) on my XP Pro install, mainly for the
calendar feature, so was pleased to see this included in windows mail. Not
going to try to install Office XP on my Vista, as I understand there would
be issues with that. I think what I have with Windows Mail though, will
serve me ok.

Outlook 2002 will run under Vista, but with a few problems.

I see where another program, Windows Live Mail is available as well. I
checked on the link I found, and really did not see a lot about it. What
is the general consensus here, is the Windows Live Mail program much
better than the included windows mail program? I don't really understand
what the differences are here.

One difference is that, unlike Windows Mail, it can connect to mail
servers using the HTTP protocol, such as Hotmail. Also, it has a separate
set of mail folders for each email account you have. Microsoft is putting
more effort into improving it than for Windows Mail. If you want to find
more Windows Live Mail users, look in newsgroup:

microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

 

[Don]

Outlook 2002 will run under Vista, but with a few problems.


One difference is that, unlike Windows Mail, it can connect to mail
servers using the HTTP protocol, such as Hotmail. Also, it has a separate
set of mail folders for each email account you have. Microsoft is putting
more effort into improving it than for Windows Mail. If you want to find
more Windows Live Mail users, look in newsgroup:

microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

Thanks Robert!

 

[Guest]

Thanks Robert!

You're welcome.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I could give you a long list of reasons why I think WLM is better than
WM, but the best way to find out is to try it yourself. There is no
downside to trying it. If you don't like it, merely uninstall WLM,
and WM is back as before. You can even run both email programs
side-by-side, as I have been doing for the past 11 months.
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview