On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:00:48 -0700, GreyCloud
wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:09:03 -0500, Nil
wrote:

On 24 Jan 2011, Ken Blake wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I can't talk about Windows Mail, since I hardly used it at all,
but as far as I'm concerned, Windows Live Mail is (and even was)
*much* worse than Outlook Express.
How so? Like I said, I never got into OE much, but in my limited
experience, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail look pretty much like
OE, and seemed to operate in similar ways.



Yes, similar--but not identical. As I've said many times, I consider
Windows Mail to just be a new version of Outlook Express with a
different name, and Windows Live Mail to be a still newer version with
a different name.

But regarding in what ways I found Windows Live Mail to be much worse
than Outlook Express, I wish I could be specific, but I can't. It's
been too long since I tried it for me to remember the details.

Now the situation is getting quite confusing.
The only reason I'm reading this newsgroup is because I'm considering
getting a win7 PC.
I can learn a lot from newsgroups about problems.
So, is Windows Live Mail now the standard email client in Win7?



No. Windows 7 has no standard e-mail client. It comes with none.
However, since it's free, many (probably most) OEMs are bundling it
with computers they sell. As a result it has become the post popular
e-mail client used with Windows 7, and many people who got it with
their computers don't even realize that it's not part of Windows 7.