Windows Live Mail in Windows 7?

[Octavio]

Windows Live Mails comes also with Windows 7?

 

[SC Tom]

Windows Live Mails comes also with Windows 7?

Not natively. Some PC makers are bundling it with Win7.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Windows Live Mails comes also with Windows 7?

No.

Windows 7 comes with *no* e-mail or newsgroup program. Although many
people object to this, I think it's a step in the right direction,
since it leaves everyone more free to chose whatever program(s) he
likes best. There are many choices available, both from Microsoft and
from third-parties. Some are free and some are for sale. Microsoft has
Windows Live Mail available for download for free and Outlook (a
different program from outlook express) available for sale, either
alone or as part of Microsoft Office.

I personally use Microsoft Outlook for e-mail and Forte Agent for
newsgroups, but you should try several and choose what you like best.

 

[Top]

No.

Windows 7 comes with *no* e-mail or newsgroup program. Although many
people object to this, I think it's a step in the right direction,
since it leaves everyone more free to chose whatever program(s) he
likes best. There are many choices available, both from Microsoft and
from third-parties. Some are free and some are for sale. Microsoft has
Windows Live Mail available for download for free and Outlook (a
different program from outlook express) available for sale, either
alone or as part of Microsoft Office.

I personally use Microsoft Outlook for e-mail and Forte Agent for
newsgroups, but you should try several and choose what you like best.

This makes me wonder if there will be a move in the future (by MS) to sell a email package.

Ed

 

[Sunny]

(e-mail address removed)
says...

This makes me wonder if there will be a move in the future (by MS) to
sell a email package.

They do now "Outlook"

 

[Trev]

(e-mail address removed)
says...

This makes me wonder if there will be a move in the future (by MS) to sell
a email package.

Ed

If You read that post you replied to you would see they do and have done for
many years. Its called Outlook

 

[Octavio]

Just trying to educate myself a little bit about Windows 7, that is why I
asked the question.

I have Vista Ultimate and I use Outlook (Professional 2007) for my e-mails.
Outlook is convenient because it is the standard used in the Professional
offices, so it is good to use the same thing everywhere so you don't have to
get into another program and system.

I use Windows Live Mail for my Newsgroups, and I am used to it and find it
very convenient and easy to use with the Newsgroups. With Windows Live Mail
I have also access to my e-mails sent to my old e-mail address, so for now
I would hesitate using something else other than Windows Live Mail for the
Newsgroups.

Based on the answers that I got in this thread, let me ask now, can I see
the Newsgroups with Outlook?

 

[Trev]

Just trying to educate myself a little bit about Windows 7, that is why I
asked the question.

I have Vista Ultimate and I use Outlook (Professional 2007) for my
e-mails. Outlook is convenient because it is the standard used in the
Professional offices, so it is good to use the same thing everywhere so
you don't have to get into another program and system.

I use Windows Live Mail for my Newsgroups, and I am used to it and find it
very convenient and easy to use with the Newsgroups. With Windows Live
Mail I have also access to my e-mails sent to my old e-mail address, so
for now I would hesitate using something else other than Windows Live Mail
for the Newsgroups.

Based on the answers that I got in this thread, let me ask now, can I see
the Newsgroups with Outlook?

No It used to use OE or windows mail as a Newsgroup server. But now that
does not work. you have to open each separately. Mind that was the case but
you could add a link in outlook. Of course that might only be me as Outlook
was installed prior to Live mail.

 

[Augustus]

Based on the answers that I got in this thread, let me ask now, can I see

the Newsgroups with Outlook?

No, Standalone Outlook or Outlook as part of MS Office is a mail program
only. A very good one too. Only OE had a n/g reader ability.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

This makes me wonder if there will be a move in the future (by MS) to sell a email package.

Microsoft already has for sale a program that does e-mail, and has had
it for many years. It's Outlook, as I said above.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Just trying to educate myself a little bit about Windows 7, that is why I
asked the question.

I have Vista Ultimate and I use Outlook (Professional 2007) for my e-mails.
Outlook is convenient because it is the standard used in the Professional
offices, so it is good to use the same thing everywhere so you don't have to
get into another program and system.

I use Windows Live Mail for my Newsgroups, and I am used to it and find it
very convenient and easy to use with the Newsgroups. With Windows Live Mail
I have also access to my e-mails sent to my old e-mail address, so for now
I would hesitate using something else other than Windows Live Mail for the
Newsgroups.

Based on the answers that I got in this thread, let me ask now, can I see
the Newsgroups with Outlook?

Yes, if you acquire an addin for it like Newshound. Otherwise no.

Although many people want a single program that does both, personally
I prefer to use separate programs. I keep both open all the time.

 

[Top]

They do now "Outlook"

As soon s I hit the send button I realized I should have said sell "more" email software.
There was a time when they sold IE instead of giving it away. It almost looks like they
might be getting away from doing those sorts of things.

Ed

 

[Gordon]

There was a time when they sold IE instead of giving it away.

Don't think so......

 

[Top]

Microsoft already has for sale a program that does e-mail, and has had
it for many years. It's Outlook, as I said above.

A case of me hitting the send button well in advance of thinking what I was saying. What I
should have said was positioning themselves to charging for all their software. In
particular email software. I still have a version IE (yes I know it's not for email) that I
paid for. I have that and the other browser that was popular at the time whose name I can't
recall at the moment.

Ed

--
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the President, or that we are to stand by
the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public."
Theodore Roosevelt

 

[Top]

Don't think so......

Then you should think again.

--
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the President, or that we are to stand by
the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public."
Theodore Roosevelt

 

[SC Tom]

Read here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx
We had Win95 at work immediately after it was released, and IE was included
with the copies we bought. There was an update to it that was available in
the Win95 Plus! pack, but shortly after that, IE updates/upgrades were
readily available for free. I never did pay for IE, unless you call paying
for Win95 the same as paying for IE.
Wasn't Netscape the other biggie at that time? There was another too that I
don't remember. I think CompuServe used Netscape, but I don't remember what
AOL was using at that time (or the other way around).

 

[Gordon]

Read here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx
We had Win95 at work immediately after it was released, and IE was
included with the copies we bought. There was an update to it that was
available in the Win95 Plus! pack, but shortly after that, IE
updates/upgrades were readily available for free. I never did pay for IE,
unless you call paying for Win95 the same as paying for IE.
Wasn't Netscape the other biggie at that time? There was another too that
I don't remember. I think CompuServe used Netscape, but I don't remember
what AOL was using at that time (or the other way around).

Mosaic was the first....

 

[Gordon]

Then you should think again.

Well I've never paid for it - and I've been using Windows since 3.1, and I
started using Mosaic...

 

[SC Tom]

Mosaic was the first....

THAT'S the one I was trying to think of! Thanks!

 

[Top]

Read here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx
We had Win95 at work immediately after it was released, and IE was included
with the copies we bought. There was an update to it that was available in
the Win95 Plus! pack, but shortly after that, IE updates/upgrades were
readily available for free. I never did pay for IE, unless you call paying
for Win95 the same as paying for IE.
Wasn't Netscape the other biggie at that time? There was another too that I
don't remember. I think CompuServe used Netscape, but I don't remember what
AOL was using at that time (or the other way around).

Netscape was the one I was thinking of. What happened was that both were being sold at the
time. MS decided that in order to crush the opposition (Netscape) they would give IE away. I
think that may have been IE version 4 but I'm not sure of that. I have a "commemorative"
edition of it around here somewhere. No I didn't mean that I paid for it as part of Win 95.
Browsers were available before Win 95.

Ed

--
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the President, or that we are to stand by
the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public."
Theodore Roosevelt