David Park said:
I just bought a new computer from Dell with Vista and Small Business
Office
2007.
Apparently Dell takes off Outlook Express when they install Small
Business
Office.
So now how do I subscribe to newsgroups?
Do I have to buy Outlook Express?
I don't like the lost of this functionality I had with my quite old
system
and Outlook 2000.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/mail.mspx
Time to go to the library and get a Vista for Dummies book. You haven't
yet expended any effort to discover and learn that new fangled operating
system and all the included bloat. My county library already lists 9
teach-yourself or "dummies" books for Vista. You've been using Windows
XP for 5 years. Time to spend a couple evenings reading the books and
maybe even using the help that is already included with the product.
People learn by doing, so start doing Vista since that's what you're
stuck with now.
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. Outlook Express
became Windows Mail. Did all functionality of OE survive into Windows
Mail? No, like you cannot connect to Hotmail's HTTP service, free
(legacy accounts) or paid, if you use Windows Mail since Microsoft
intends that you use Windows Live Mail, yet another webmail interface,
for Hotmail access (see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926374). Even
if Outlook Express, er, Windows Mail weren't there at all in Vista, how
does that preclude you from trying other NNTP clients, several of which
are free, like Xnews, Forte (the crippled version is free), 40tude
Dialog, Thunderbird (although that's a step backward), Super Gravity,
and I'm sure there are others not mentioned here (Google does work).
Don't expect all that fluff software to continue to be provided in every
successive version of the operating system, either, or that it retains
all old behavior or functionality. After all, it's fluff and not part
of an OS. MS-Paint might disappear someday, too. If you want it all
the same old way then you have to keep using the same old software.
By the way, Outlook Express is NOT Outlook, so you posted in the wrong
newsgroup. OE is not some "lite" version of Outlook. There is no
shared code. They are not sibling products any more than Word and
WordPerfect are related to each other. Stop confusing Outlook Express
with Outlook. Outlook is a PIM that Microsoft bought from someone else
(I forgot where they originally got it). Outlook Express used to be
called Internet Mail & News and they bought that from someone else. You
got Outlook in SBO 2007. Outlook Express has NEVER been included in an
Office package.
