Where is Windows Mail, or Outlook Express, in Windows 7?

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I've been using Win7 since the RC came out and I didn't even realize that a mail client was missing from Windows until reading about it last week. Try Thunderbird you might like it. It's free and has some great add-ons that give you almost any feature you could need or want. Of course, if you use MS-Office Outlook, you'll want to stick with that as that has features you might have grown dependent on.

I am disappointed that Windows Mail is not available. I want a mail program that includes the Edit, Source and Preview buttons.

I have always used Microsoft Mail and cannot get around to use other mail alternatives, I think Microsoft is the best regardless what they say about Microsoft, its still No 1.

I have read somewhere on the net where you can get windwos mail to work with windows 7. I wish I had the information now as I will be getting my new computer today. I have vista on this laptop and like windows mail. I hope Microsoft will eventually let us download windows mail.
Pat

Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, and Thunderbird are not adequate replacements for Outlook Express. That's because none of those programs provide the "Identities" feature. If you don't use or understand Identities, you can pass this off as an unimportant extra, but those of us who do use it feel that it's an essential item for any respectable e-mail program. We are not weirdos or cranks. We just feel that this important feature should not have been discontinued. I'm unhappy enough that I won't ever upgrade to any new Microsoft O.S. unless they bring back Outlook Express or a viable replacement. When they no longer provide security patches for XP, I'll move to another platform. I don't need to stick with Microsoft to use Thunderbird. I can use it with a Linux machine, or if I win the lottery, a Macintosh. If e-mail is a user's chief concern, the much maligned Windows ME is a far more usable operating system than Windows 7. Incidentally, I've been using the Release Candidate of Windows 7 for some time and have found that one workaround for the Outlook Express problem is to run an older version of Windows in Microsoft's Virtual PC. It works, but what a pain! And possibly insecure too.

I Installed windows 7 on my notebook, I have 3 other computers which I will not update to win 7 as the outlook express is not available.

More reasons than ever not to upgrade, not to pay, not to participate in Microsoft's ongoing crusade to manipulate, bully and dominate the marketplace to which it feels entitled.
Microsoft has perpetrated the biggest technological consumer experiment in history, and this is yet another chapter in it's shabby legacy.

-JUST SAY NO!-

Just one more reason that Windows will continue to be bloatware. They will always have to support obsolete technologies and methods. It always amazes me how resistant people are to change yet they are the first to complain that "nothing changes". I haven't used Outlook Express in years. If I get one more e-mail with the .eml extension I am going to choke someone. I have been using Windows 7 beta for many months. It is rock solid and it closes a lot of security gaps. All of you out there who refuse to change, I don't want to hear you complain that "my computers slow". You are probably a bot for half a dozen spammers out there. Just pay the computer tech and quit griping about how expensive it is to have your computer deloused.

Does Thunderbird do newsgroups, the way OE does???

Yes.

07-Nov-2009

This is one move that will backfire on Microsoft and will be the start of a significant slide in old users trust. OE has become a trusted institution for its simplicity of use and standardized user interface and there are blessed few of those sort of things in the digital world.

This is a huge mistake for Microsoft and a terrible wrench thrown into a new OS by its absence. I dare say this will be a greater ‘clutch’ issue and aversion than all the user permissions on Vista were … mark my words a huge mistake that will defer people to look at Mac, Linux etc etc!

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