Outlook 2000 -vs- 2002 (XP), differences

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Where can I find a brief and detailed list of differences between Outlook
2000 and Outlook 2002?

Does Outlook 2002 support news servers?

I support many customers that use Outlook 2000 and asked about Outlook 2002.
 
Check the roduct guide
http://www.microsoft.com/office/outlook/evaluation/guide.asp

None of the Outlook versions support news servers. When you start the
newsclient from Outlook it will open the Outlook Express newsreader. You can
configure your Exchange server to include newsgroups so users can access it
from Public Folders.

If you consider upgrading your Outlook client I suggest you wait for Outlook
2003 which went RTM today (if rumours are true) and will be launched before
the end of October
 
My clients also inquiried about Office 2003 and Outlook 2003; they had more
interest in Outlook 2003. My clients do not use an Exchange server.

Does Outlook 2003 support news servers?

Does Outlook 2003 help prevent automatic virus execution where it reads the
address book where the virus propagates itself over the Internet?

I need some details on Outlook 2002/2003 such as end user features.
 
Outlook 2003 doesn't support news servers either.

Info on Outlook 2003 can be found here
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/editions/outlook.asp

Even without an Exchange server Outlook 2003 has lots of benefits over
Outlook 2000 or even Outlook 2002 (pst-files don't have a 2GB limit
anymore). It's a bit hard to explain as the look & feel of Outlook has
changed quite a bit as well. I suggest you evaluate the product when it for
yourself.

Outlook 2003 indeed protects the addressbook when any other program tries to
access it. Also attachments that have the potential of being a virus are
also blocked. There is also a Junk-Mail filter in Outlook 2003.

The view of Outlook can be configures in many many ways. The reading pane
can now be set on the right side as well next to your itemlist. Messages can
be sorted and grouped so you can e.g. collapse all the mails you received
more than a week ago and expand only the mails younger than a week. This
week you can have many items in the folder and still keep the list short.

Contact support has been expanded as well. Clicking on the sender name of a
received message will display a whole menu of actions to perform. I also
like the feature to include a picture for the contact. My personal contact
have a picture of them and I configured my business contacts to have the
companylogo as a picture for easy recognision.

Then there is a new Naviationpane which replaces the Outlookbar. There are
Favorites folders, Search folders and... well it's just too much. I really
like the new Outlook 2003 as you probably noticed already.

I hope this answered your question.
 
What is the limit on Outlook 2003 PST files? Hopefully its the size of the
available hard drive space.

The address book protection sounds good too in Outlook 2003.

Does Outlook 2003 support message threading like it appears in Outlook
Express 6?

Thanks for all the Outlook information that you have provided me so far.
 
You're welcome :-)

For your last two questions;
1) A pst-file can become 20GB large in Outlook 2003 but you must create a
Unicode pst-file then which is only supported in Outlook 2003. You can use
your old (97-2002) pst-files as well in Outlook 2003 but these cannot
becaome 20GB of course.

2) It does support message threading. First you do Arrange by-> Subject and
then you let it "Show in groups".
 
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