Outlook Express and Thunder Bird

[toomyg]

I tell ya Thunder Bird is getting alot better now a days then ol Outlook Express with all the features that Thunder Bird has!!!!! is Microsoft ever going to upgrade outlook express like it did Internet Explorer or is Microsoft going to let Outlook Express just fade away?

[glc]

They are updating it in Vista and renaming it Windows Mail.

[toomyg]

Originally Posted by glc They are updating it in Vista and renaming it Windows Mail.

Thats kinda dumb because every one with xp or lower will just goto thunderbird or some other email program thats better

[Ob1]

Originally Posted by toomyg Thats kinda dumb because every one with xp or lower will just goto thunderbird or some other email program thats better

microsoft wants you to upgrade to vista so why would they keep giving XP and 2000 the same look and tools that vista has, it would just prolong people from making the switch something that Microsoft is NOT into doing.........

[toomyg]

Ya ob1 your right I didn't think of it like that, I guess that does make sense

[glc]

I don't use IE or OE anyway, so I could care less.

[Stuey]

I stopped using Outlook Express after it lost my emails when I accidentally closed it during an unauthorized "archiving" session.

I use Thunderbird on my office computer, but only to copy mail from the server. I don't trust it with mission-critical email since it doesn't play too nicely with imap servers.

I use Outlook on my laptop, and gmail's "notifier" on all of my systems.

"Windows Mail" runs smoothly and like they say, so far so good.

Thunderbird is a bit unintuitive. Every few months I install it on a system and each and every time it takes me 20 minutes of googling to figure out how to change the behavior of quoted text in emails I'm replying to. It doesn't play well with gmail servers either.

Long story short, different email programs for different people and different tasks.

[glc]

I've been using Pegasus since the days of Windows 3.1.