Why Italian dictionary is still missing in Vista Mail?

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Hexaae

I can't understand why. Microsoft provided French, German, English, Spanish
and NOT Italian. First months I thought it was just a matter of time but
still after almost 2 years and SP1, Vista Mail is still missing Italian
dictionary.

WHY?
 
Hexaae said:
I can't understand why. Microsoft provided French, German, English, Spanish
and NOT Italian. First months I thought it was just a matter of time but
still after almost 2 years and SP1, Vista Mail is still missing Italian
dictionary.

WHY?
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And it will never have it.
 
Microsoft stopped developing for Windows Mail even before Vista
was released. It is a dead product. All development work is
focused on Windows Live Mail (WLM). Even WLM doesn't currently
have built-in support for Italian spell checking. However, there is
an easy hack that allows you to use most any Microsoft Office
dictionary for spell checking. If interested, post a query in the WLM
newsgroup: microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop .
 
"Gary VanderMolen" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
Microsoft stopped developing for Windows Mail even before Vista
was released. It is a dead product. All development work is
focused on Windows Live Mail (WLM). Even WLM doesn't currently
have built-in support for Italian spell checking. However, there is
an easy hack that allows you to use most any Microsoft Office
dictionary for spell checking. If interested, post a query in the WLM
newsgroup: microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop .

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


Hexaae said:
I can't understand why. Microsoft provided French, German, English, Spanish
and NOT Italian. First months I thought it was just a matter of time but
still after almost 2 years and SP1, Vista Mail is still missing Italian
dictionary.

WHY?
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Do you know a way to hack (dosen't matter if complicated, I'm an expert
user...) and add Italian Outlook's dictionary or another? I've heard the new
dictionary format has changed so it should be impossible... is it true?

Ciao
 
In WM, no. In WLM, yes.
The WLM hack requires a dictionary from Office 2003 or earlier.
Office 2007 changed the dictionary format.
 
Luca, do you have an Italian version of Vista? I can understand why English
(US) Vista would have French, German, English, Spanish dictionaries
installed, but the Italian version of Vista? That should have an Italian
spell checker.

Ciao,

Earle

In WM, no. In WLM, yes.
The WLM hack requires a dictionary from Office 2003 or earlier.
Office 2007 changed the dictionary format.
 
WLM will replace WM or will I have the dead program WM forever on my HD? Is
it possible to uninstall it?
Does WLM import all current settings and mails from WM if installed?

Ciao

"Gary VanderMolen" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
In WM, no. In WLM, yes.
The WLM hack requires a dictionary from Office 2003 or earlier.
Office 2007 changed the dictionary format.
 
Hexaae said:
WLM will replace WM or will I have the dead program WM forever on my HD?
Is it possible to uninstall it?
Does WLM import all current settings and mails from WM if installed?

Ciao

"Gary VanderMolen" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
In WM, no. In WLM, yes.
The WLM hack requires a dictionary from Office 2003 or earlier.
Office 2007 changed the dictionary format.
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It won't remove WinMail, which cannot be uninstalled.
 
So, to be perfectly clear, the Italian version of Vista comes with Windows
Mail with spell checkers for English, French, Spanish and German? That's
crazy. Arrogant too. I wonder if say, Chinese users have to put up with
this too?

To answer your other question, it does not appear possible to uninstall
Windows Mail. You could of course delete the program directory and all
registry entries related to Windows Mail, but who knows what havoc this
could cause?

I installed the Portuguese dictionary from Office 2003 into Windows Live
Mail. If you have Italian Office 2003, XP, or 2000 you should be able to do
the same with Italian.

Earle
 
Earle Horton said:
So, to be perfectly clear, the Italian version of Vista comes with Windows
Mail with spell checkers for English, French, Spanish and German? That's
crazy. Arrogant too. I wonder if say, Chinese users have to put up with
this too?
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You have as much power to fix that as anyone else here.
 
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE said:
You have as much power to fix that as anyone else here.
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So the answer is "Yes, you can buy a copy of Windows localized for Italian,
but the mail program only spell checks English, French, Spanish or German"?
That's crazy.

Anyone have a clue where they put the dictionaries for WM? I have looked in
all the usual suspect directories, but it is not there.

Earle
 
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE said:
It won't remove WinMail, which cannot be uninstalled.
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Will WLM automatically use previous WM settings (accounts, newsgroups,
filter etc.) or do I have to recreate everything?
 
Earle Horton said:
So the answer is "Yes, you can buy a copy of Windows localized for
Italian, but the mail program only spell checks English, French, Spanish
or German"? That's crazy.
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That's exactly what every Italian Vista user thinks about this shame, and in
more than year MS did not even release at least a hotfix for this, but
release a useless dictionary update for German and Enlish (if I remember
well) adding a just 6-7 "common terms" like "Obama", "Klum" etc.
What should legal Italian Vista buyers think about this behaviour?
Anyone have a clue where they put the dictionaries for WM? I have looked
in all the usual suspect directories, but it is not there.
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Me too... if you discover what dictionary file uses for Ger, Fra, Eng, Spa
and where let me know...

Ciao
 
WLM usually manages to import everything from WM.
Sometimes the contacts are not imported, but that is easily
done manually.
 
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