Hate Microsoft Outlook Mail? Try Windows Live Mail instead.
Although Microsoft Outlook is a great product in the enterprise where it's safely tethered to the ubiquitous Exchange Server, the product leaves a lot to be desired in the non-Exchange world. From PST corruption to outright weirdness, I don't want to spend more time managing my mail client than I spend managing my actual mail. In the hunt for a new client for home, I found and fell in love with Windows Live Mail.
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What do you use to manage your digital communications? What do you like and not like about it?Corrupt PST
To funny about this article. I also am making the move from the corrupt PST's of outlook 07 to Windows Live mail. Takes a bit to get use to having to synch mail... but I am sure I will get use to that soon enough.Every day at work though I am foreced to deal with a corrupt PST. Thanks Microsoft, my 3+ year archive of mail worked fine before Office 2007. Thanks for taking three years of my work life and putting it in jeopardy every time I fire up Outlook.
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If not Outlook, what then? A free program?
I've have used Outlook for a long time and have my calendar loaded, notes, mailbox, etc. Like every warm blooded person with outlook, it has become my electronic file cabinet. The thought about moving to a different platform is not a fun idea and especially when the free products are a moving target. Outlook Express didn't have a spell check by default and is no longer secure, windows mail replaces it but now we have windows live mail. I've not had problems with .pst issues and when Microsoft decided to forget supporting my Microsoft live mail account in my Microsoft outlook mail program I'm beginning to have second thoughts about using live as my base e-mail account.Ever tried another search tool?
Hey thereI am using outlook (2007) at work and at home. Of course everyone likes different things and so I can´t really disagree with you. But searching your emails is easier with outlook when you use a different search tool, the search integrated in outlook is not very good, so it is better to install a different one. I am using lookeen, of course there are others but this works for me, so I can recommend it.
Widows Live Mail
Windows Live Mail is an incredibly POOR program. It is actually a DOWNGRADE of many of Outlooks functions. It is bug-ridden, and has corrupted many of my stored "sent" messages. (Others online have indicated the same problem, so I know it's not just my computer.)In Microsoft's attempt to add featured, they have broken well-used ones. For example in the calendar, they actually send you an email "reminder". Trouble is, they often come hours late. Also, because the reminder is not distinct from the previous Outlook reminders, that means you have to constantly monitor your in-box in case a received email is actually a reminder of an appointment about to occur.
Windows Live Mail is an embarrassment even for Microsoft.