Windows 7....and Windows Mail Client

[denmarfl]

I will be doing an InPlace Vista to Windows7 Upgrade. Currently using
Windows Mail which is part of Vista. After the Upgrade to Windows7, and
since I assume Vista will be replaced by Windows 7, will Windows Mail still
be running? Will it run under Windows7?

Or, will Windows Mail no longer be an appll that will be present on my PC
and I will need to Install Windows LIVE Mail?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Once you upgrade to Windows 7 you will no longer have a functional
Windows Mail program. That is why it important that you upgrade to
Windows Live Mail now, which will import all your WM data. Then you
can back up the Windows Live Mail data with this free third party utility:

http://www.staticbackup.com/windows-live-mail-backup/
http://www.staticbackup.com/products.htm#swmbf

Then you use the same utility to restore the Windows Live Mail data
(after first installing Windows Live Mail on Windows 7).

It does not transfer contacts, but you can easily copy and restore
the folder C:\Users\username\Contacts.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

See replies to your original thread about this.

 

[Canuck57]

I will be doing an InPlace Vista to Windows7 Upgrade. Currently using
Windows Mail which is part of Vista. After the Upgrade to Windows7, and
since I assume Vista will be replaced by Windows 7, will Windows Mail still
be running? Will it run under Windows7?

Or, will Windows Mail no longer be an appll that will be present on my PC
and I will need to Install Windows LIVE Mail?

This might be a good time for amny to jump off the MS-Windows Mail
issues and use Thunderbird. If you switch to Thunderbird, it will work
on XP, Vista and presumably Win 7 as well as other platforms all the same.

Vista mail sure didn't last long. Guess hey couldn't fix it.

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

 

[Dave]

I don't MSFT had any intention of "fixing" Windows Mail. It was just a
temporary program to release with Vista, until WLM was in shape to be
released.

 

[Dave]

I don't MSFT had any intention of "fixing" Windows Mail. It was just a
temporary program to release with Vista, until WLM was in shape to be
released.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

This might be a good time for amny to jump off the MS-Windows Mail issues
and use Thunderbird. If you switch to Thunderbird, it will work on XP,
Vista and presumably Win 7 as well as other platforms all the same.

Vista mail sure didn't last long. Guess hey couldn't fix it.

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

It does not require much intelligence to figure out that if you want email
software for free, then everyone upgrading to Windows 7 won't use Microsoft
software that does not cost extra.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Not sure I understand the point you are trying to make.
Windows Mail --> Windows Live Mail has an easy (automatic) upgrade path.
Windows Mail --> Thunderbird, not so much.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

Yes, my thinking was incorrect. Windows Live Mail is available for free and
you have said many times that it works in Windows 7.


Not sure I understand the point you are trying to make.
Windows Mail --> Windows Live Mail has an easy (automatic) upgrade path.
Windows Mail --> Thunderbird, not so much.

 

[Steve Cochran]

That is not what the MVPs were told at the time, and it only turned out to
be the case in retrospect after it became clear the MVPs and the public were
misinformed. They never fixed OE either.

But then you could also say that about Vista itself.

setve

 

[Miles]

That's hilarious, but so true.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Steve Cochran]

It wasn't funny to us.

steve

That's hilarious, but so true.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

When will that be then?

Nigel M

We need Windows 7 groups on the Microfoft News Server!

 

[Steve Cochran]

never

When will that be then?

Nigel M

We need Windows 7 groups on the Microfoft News Server!

 

[Sam Hobbs]

I read my message again and I still don't understand what I said.


Not sure I understand the point you are trying to make.
Windows Mail --> Windows Live Mail has an easy (automatic) upgrade path.
Windows Mail --> Thunderbird, not so much.

 

[Steve Cochran]

<VBG>

I read my message again and I still don't understand what I said.


Not sure I understand the point you are trying to make.
Windows Mail --> Windows Live Mail has an easy (automatic) upgrade path.
Windows Mail --> Thunderbird, not so much.

 

[smlunatick]

Thunderbird doesn't transfer data correctly from .csv files and that is
the only option I have found.   Still looking for a solution....Windows
live mail sucks.

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Yeah! Amen to this! My WLM requires my Hotmail account to be logged
on to work well. I do not like the layout.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You seem to have some wrong conceptions about Windows Live Mail.
I suggest you ask for assistance in the WLM newsgroup:

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...dg=microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
or via your news reader: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile/vandermolen


Yeah! Amen to this! My WLM requires my Hotmail account to be logged
on to work well. I do not like the layout.

 

[Shen]

Once you upgrade to Windows 7 you will no longer have a functional
Windows Mail program. That is why it important that you upgrade to
Windows Live Mail now, which will import all your WM data. Then you
can back up the Windows Live Mail data with this free third party utility:

http://www.staticbackup.com/windows-live-mail-backup/
http://www.staticbackup.com/products.htm#swmbf

Then you use the same utility to restore the Windows Live Mail data
(after first installing Windows Live Mail on Windows 7).

It does not transfer contacts, but you can easily copy and restore
the folder C:\Users\username\Contacts.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile/vandermolen



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[Shen]

Can you please supply the name of a third party email client that will
install and work with Window 7. Vista Windows Mail was really bad, but
Windows Live Mail is by far the worst!

In my business I need a mail client just like Outlook Express so that our
application programs can send groups of email from the application to the
outbox so we can send out small batches of mail. These features worked best
with Outlook Express and did work with Vista Mail but the features DO NOT
work with Live Mail.

When will Microsoft be fixing these problems. When will a bug fix be
available for the mail programs?