Hi, Sunny.
Yes, I'm using WLMail for both email and news. It is NOT the same as
Outlook Express, but it is close enough that it took only a day or two to
get familiar with it. As Gordon said, the new Wave 4 beta version is
"considerably different" with the new Ribbon and it still has some bugs -
for me, at least - that need to be worked out before RTW. Wave 3 is the
version available at
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials?os=win7
and is currently the latest non-beta version available.
I've used WLMail for mail and news from multiple servers, just as I did for
more than a decade with OE. MANY ISP's stopped carrying Usenet, even before
Microsoft's decision, but my ISP (Grande Communications, in San Marcos, TX)
still offers the full range of 100,000+ NGs - including mirrors of all those
that have been available on the Microsoft public news server
(msnews.microsoft.com). That server IS being closed by Microsoft, by
October 2010. It remains to be seen how many - and which - of those MS NGs
will continue on Usenet after the Microsoft "mother ship" closes.
I see that you are using OE to read THIS NG, Sunny. I'm using WLMail, just
as I did with OE - except that I haven't used WinXP since 2006. The Netbook
that I got in March had Win7 Starter, which I quickly upgraded to 32-bit
Win7 Ultimate. WLMail runs fine in both Starter and Ultimate.
Like many others, including many MVPs, I'm VERY disappointed at Microsoft's
decision to move from newsgroups to forums. We fought very hard to get MSFT
to reverse that decision, to no avail. For myself, like many MVPs and
others, I am TRYING to use forums (mostly via the Community NNTP Bridge)
while continuing to subscribe to remaining newsgroups on Usenet as long as I
can.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2010 (15.3.2804.0607) in Win7 Ultimate x64)
"Sunny" wrote in message
For use on a "Netbook" ?
With the demise of Outlook Express in Windows7 is anyone using Windows
live Mail as a news reader?
My searching so far seems to point that the only news reader capability is
restricted to the soon to defunked microsoft news server. (Which will soon
be re-directed web based "forums")