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On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 12:02:03 -0400, "dadiOH"
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"Ken Springer" wrote in
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I've not looked at Win8 enough yet, but my impression
was that the mail feature supplied with Win8 was WLM.
Not so?

Not so. What is included is Windows Mail, a different
thing. And a less than good thing, IMO; You can set it
up to retrieve mail from Google, Hotmail and other such
webby things but if you want POP3, forget it. IOW, it
is useless...if I wanted mail from Google, Hotmail and
other such webby things I'd just go there and get it.

If you want POP3, Windows LIVE Mail affords that
opportunity IIRC but you have to have a "Microsoft
account". I have lived 80+ years without a Microsoft
account and I don't want one now, not even to enable me
to buy "apps" from their store.



Wow! Another "old guy" here. I thought I was the oldest
at nearly
79. Buy I'm apparently having much more trouble than
anyone else trying to learn Win 8. In fact, I'm about to
bail -- and install an older OS.

There really isn't anything to learn. With Classic Shell, my Win8 laptop
looks and functions almost exactly like my Win XP SP3 desktop.

Once in a long while do I venture into Metro screen land, mainly because it
has links to a very good map and weather. Nothing much to learn there
either except how to close the app; there are various ways but Alt + F4
works just like always.


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dadiOH
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