No inbuilt email client in Windows 7?

[Darren S]

Seems a little strange as to why MSoft has pulled the plug on Outlook Express? I know there are better email clients out there, but OE was a small, quite useful and inbuilt email client.

Oh well, looks like Thunderbird will be getting another try.

D.

 

[Cookie]

OE was s**t, and never useful

 

[Snubbs]

Probably due to an EU ruling tbh - dam European Union.. they cause more trouble than good.

You can still get OE (although its called Live Mail or something like that now), just go on http://download.live.com/wlmail

James

P.S. Thunderbird is better

 

[Darren S]

OE was s**t, and never useful

Thanks for the outstanding input. Here.....

.....have an MP5 and go and do something useful.

Probably due to an EU ruling tbh - dam European Union.. they cause more trouble than good.

You can still get OE (although its called Live Mail or something like that now), just go on http://download.live.com/wlmail

James

P.S. Thunderbird is better

I did like that the last few times I used it. It did seem a little limited on the rules though compared to OE. Probably why I always ended up going back to OE.

D.

 

[Initiale]

Windows Live Mail is the evolution of Windows Mail/OE apparantly - part of Windows Live Essentials that you can download from 7.

 

[rory182]

so if you download windows live will it work with hotmail acounts?

I'm awaiting my windows 7 upgrade at the mo

 

[iain187]

my missus uses windows live to read her hotmail so yeah it will.

 

[conneh]

Or you could install Outlook 2007 from the latest Office package.

 

[rory182]

my missus uses windows live to read her hotmail so yeah it will.

cool cheers

 

[Woodentop]

I missed Outlook express because i found the newsgroup reader to be good, so i installed it into Windows XP Mode that you can download and run inside Windows 7 (if you have the better versions of 7)