OE is not the best of all time. Quite the contrary.
Outlook and Outlook express do dumb things to mail.
As a Unix guy I send alert messages to my mail (when I have a job, and
I'm talking my work computer). The text messages are always F'd up on
Outlook.

But not on TB. Outlook unfortunately reformats it. It never winds up
looking like it did. Other mailers don't do that.

There are a load of other things I can say about MS products.
Thankfully I can usually run Cygwin on Windoze at most companies.

I prefer Solaris, or Linux. But that's another story.

On 4/2/2012 3:14 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 08:25:23 -0700, wrote:



"Swingman" wrote in message
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On 4/1/2012 10:45 PM, CW wrote:


"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message


I miss the old Outlook Express. Now I use Agent.
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At least I know that I wasn't missing something. I agree about Outlook
Express. Typical Microsoft. If it works, change it.

Gotta add those useless bells and whistles and bling or it's not
considered progress by the ADD generation

Not to mention that after all these years MSFT still hasn't figured out
an automatic and smooth transition from standard to daylight savings
time. My new Win7 laptop stubbed its toe three times before it finally
got that right.

I switched to Thunderbird as an email/news client, but the last "update"
has now caused it problems.

When things work, ya gotta **** with it in the name of looks, until it
doesn't.
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Speaking of Windows 7, anyone else think that it is a step (or three)
backwards from XP (my question mark key is in-op).

Slick and blingy, nice automation, but definitely a step back from XP.
They deprived us of OE (Microsoft's best program of all time) for one.
I have to refer to the Windows 7 Inside Out book every single time I
want to do something. They took perfectly good tech phrases and
twisted them into something unusable, moving all the tech points, etc.
I like Win7, but DAMN, it's frustrating coming up to speed on it.

--
Life is an escalator:
You can move forward or backward;
you can not remain still.
-- Patricia Russell-McCloud