Outlook was allegedly designed to be the business email client for Microsoft
Office.
Outlook apparently has no newsreader because employers don't want employees
frittering away time on USENET -- although, with administrative privileges,
one can allegedly be added.
Yes, many of rightly feel that since we bought and paid for Outlook and
Office we should be able to use them together.
However Outlook is clumsy, cumbersome, slow -- and offers far fewer
user-defined options, bells and whistles than Forte Agent.
Outlook Express suited us pretty well. Not perfect, but a very fine
product.
WLM is currently in an unfinished state -- not ready for prime time --
therefore Microsoft has not totally obsoleted Outlook Express and we can
still use it for POP3 and HTTP accounts -- for the time being -- but only in
XP, not in Vista.
We users are looking for alternatives to OE and the currently crippled WLM
and OUTLOOK is ONE of the programs we look at.
This message is, of course, perfectly on topic in the
_microsoft-public.outlook_ newsgroup.
Please do not call me an idiot -- that's quite unprofessional.
Neither do I have any sort of "little war against OE/Mail and Microsoft."
I am very PRO Microsoft and I'm a stockholder -- as perhaps are YOU.
We should be working TOGETHER to make Microsoft a better corporation and
Microsoft products the best in the world -- as they once WERE.
We don't do that by putting up little territorial walls around imagined
fiefdoms on the Internet, where "outsiders" are not welcome and are excluded
from participation because of petty jealousies and injured amour propre.
--
D. Spencer Hines
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor
Exitus Acta Probat
You don't hear that from this group (Outlook) much. We hear a lot of
people say 'I'm forcing myself to use Outlook because I paid for it when I
bought office.' You should use the program that meets your needs the best.
Please stop with this idiotic cross posting that you insist on doing when
the post really has nothing to do with Outlook. We don't need to be a part
of your little war against OE/Mail and Microsoft.
--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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We sometimes hear the refrain in these newsgroups, from some quarters,
that we shouldn't expect too much from WLM or some other "free" Microsoft
software because we are not paying for it.
...That we should buy Outlook for example if we want more.
But many of us see Outlook as slow, cumbersome and designed for business
use -- not personal use -- ergo no integrated newsreader.
We want a personal email client and newsreader -- a genuine successor to
OE.
So, I say charge us for WLM, sell it to us -- as a superior, carefully
honed and developed Microsoft product, constantly upgraded and refined --
worthy of the Microsoft name.
But don't produce a grossly inferior, botched product and then tell us we
shouldn't expect too much because it's free.
