In message , KenK
writes:
Paul wrote in news
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But I can see they've gone out of their way to make
a mockery of logic and clear-headedness. Good work
Googleans. The animations they use are attempting
to make you think something is actually installing.
It is not. It's still just a web page.
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I don't think there will be a setting to return the
old interface. Productivity isn't a thing anymore.
Paul
I think I'll switch to OE (Outlook Express) Classic. Know anything about
this one? Good reviews I've looked at so far. I think this is a local
email app. not web mail.
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Some people seem happy with OE Classic - others say you need to buy the
paid version, the free version being crippled in some ways. But as Bill
an' coo says, if you're still on XP, you've got the real OE: it's called
msimn.exe, so you don't need an imitation.
However: since you're going to have to learn a new user interface
anyway, switching to OE is probably not as future-proof as it might be:
if/when your XP machine fails and you have to move to 7 anyway, you'd be
in the hands of OE Classic, which may or may not continue to be
supported (and I think the user base is not _that_ great). Since you're
going to have to learn a new UI anyway, I'd recommend something else -
probably Thunderbird. Of course, that - and most other email clients -
may not be supported for ever, but it is somewhat better so at the
moment - and also it has a fairly wide user base, so you should get good
support if you need it. (Here for example - though there is a
TB-specific support newsgroup on Mozilla's [free] server.)
Also, I think recent versions of TB support oauth (early ones didn't),
which OE doesn't (and Paul said he couldn't find any mention of oauth on
OEC's pages either). Oauth is the thing gmail accept as "secure"
(whether it is or not); you can use (what _they_ call) "insecure"
clients such as OE(, possibly OE Classic), and early TBs, but they nag
you about it (AIUI).
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