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"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Ophelia" wrote in message
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I know just what you mean. I really, really, really object to
being dictated to about what I am allowed to have... grrrrrrrrrrrrr
We ARE the customers here!!!

So you think that by using the built-in mail client that MS decided
to include that you are NOT being dictated to? Sheeeesh - I wouldn't
want to know when you ARE being dictated to!
The whole point of NOT having an email client in Windows 7 is
PERSONAL CHOICE!!!!!!!
There are at LEAST half a dozen free email clients out there that
YOU can choose from - or are you SO used to accepting blindly what
MS provides that you are incapable of making any choices any more?

There was nothing wrong with OE. They could have just left it alone,
and we would have had better choices.

"Stewart" wrote in message
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There was nothing wrong with OE. They could have just left it alone, and
we would have had better choices.

It was free. What do you expect?

"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Ophelia" wrote in message
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I know just what you mean. I really, really, really object to being
dictated to about what I am allowed to have... grrrrrrrrrrrrr
We ARE the customers here!!!

So you think that by using the built-in mail client that MS decided to
include that you are NOT being dictated to? Sheeeesh - I wouldn't want to
know when you ARE being dictated to!

Um that WAS rather my point. I DO object to using what they decide to give
me. I am very new with this os and I am still feeling my way along and
using what I have until i find something better...


The whole point of NOT having an email client in Windows 7 is PERSONAL
CHOICE!!!!!!!
There are at LEAST half a dozen free email clients out there that YOU can
choose from - or are you SO used to accepting blindly what MS provides
that you are incapable of making any choices any more?

Yes, dear.

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"Stewart" wrote in message
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"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Ophelia" wrote in message
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I know just what you mean. I really, really, really object to being
dictated to about what I am allowed to have... grrrrrrrrrrrrr
We ARE the customers here!!!

So you think that by using the built-in mail client that MS decided to
include that you are NOT being dictated to? Sheeeesh - I wouldn't want to
know when you ARE being dictated to!
The whole point of NOT having an email client in Windows 7 is PERSONAL
CHOICE!!!!!!!
There are at LEAST half a dozen free email clients out there that YOU can
choose from - or are you SO used to accepting blindly what MS provides
that you are incapable of making any choices any more?

There was nothing wrong with OE. They could have just left it alone, and
we would have had better choices.

.... and it was OUR choice.

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"Ophelia" wrote in message
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... and it was OUR choice.


So I bet you didn't TRY anything else - you just blindly went with whatever
MS decided to give you - just like most people blindly use IE and don't try
any other browser...

"Ophelia" wrote in message
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"Gordon" wrote in message
The whole point of NOT having an email client in Windows 7 is PERSONAL
CHOICE!!!!!!!
There are at LEAST half a dozen free email clients out there that YOU can
choose from - or are you SO used to accepting blindly what MS provides
that you are incapable of making any choices any more?

Yes, dear.

Oh very patronising. The last resort of a TROLL.....

Gordon wrote:


"Ophelia" wrote in message
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"Gordon" wrote in message
The whole point of NOT having an email client in Windows 7 is PERSONAL
CHOICE!!!!!!!
There are at LEAST half a dozen free email clients out there that YOU can
choose from - or are you SO used to accepting blindly what MS provides
that you are incapable of making any choices any more?

Yes, dear.

Oh very patronising. The last resort of a TROLL.....

Everyone is a troll to you.
Who proclaimed you the anti-troll?

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Gordon wrote:


"Ophelia" wrote in message
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... and it was OUR choice.


So I bet you didn't TRY anything else - you just blindly went with whatever
MS decided to give you - just like most people blindly use IE and don't try
any other browser...

Death always does what MS says ... always.
Leave the thinking to others, that's Death's motto.

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Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur.

"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Ophelia" wrote in message
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... and it was OUR choice.


So I bet you didn't TRY anything else - you just blindly went with
whatever MS decided to give you - just like most people blindly use IE and
don't try any other browser...

Is it really necessary to be so unpleasant, Gordon?



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"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Ophelia" wrote in message
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"Gordon" wrote in message
The whole point of NOT having an email client in Windows 7 is PERSONAL
CHOICE!!!!!!!
There are at LEAST half a dozen free email clients out there that YOU
can choose from - or are you SO used to accepting blindly what MS
provides that you are incapable of making any choices any more?

Yes, dear.

Oh very patronising. The last resort of a TROLL.....

Ok, bully all you want, I won't be seeing you. Into my bozo bin you go!

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"Ophelia" wrote in message
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-snippy-

The whole point of NOT having an email client in Windows 7 is PERSONAL
CHOICE!!!!!!!
There are at LEAST half a dozen free email clients out there that YOU can
choose from - or are you SO used to accepting blindly what MS provides
that you are incapable of making any choices any more?

Yes, dear.

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Hehe ...

"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Ophelia" wrote in message
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... and it was OUR choice.


So I bet you didn't TRY anything else - you just blindly went with
whatever MS decided to give you - just like most people blindly use IE and
don't try any other browser...

I don't see it as "blindly using" or being "dictated to" when an OS contains
certain accessories. The people (like you and I and many others) who WANT to
try other things, or feel the urge to experiment, or are always looking for
a better and easier way to do something will always continue on the way we
are- try it, don't like it, discard it; try it, like it, keep it; try it,
like it, maybe discard first "like it". I can't count how many mail clients,
news clients, mail and news clients, and browsers I've tried over the
decades. But I generally (but not always) end up using a MS product mostly
because I like the feel of it and it plays nicely with my OS.
Windows started bundling email clients and browsers with their OS's because
of ease of use and the attractiveness of having all that together in one
package (kind of like the Office suites). The average Joe ate it up and
bought it up, so they continued. Toward the later days of XP and into Vista,
there were so many other tried and true choices, I think they just decided
not waste the valuable resources of programming and implementation by
including it in Windows 7. I'm kinda surprised they didn't include the most
basic of browser with it and leave the choice of a full blown one to the
users.
I've always felt that their time and resources would have been better spent
on the OS itself without the fluff, but hey, I don't work for them, I just
buy from them. I think their premise is the same as most everyone else now-
"If you don't like what we offer, get something else and see where you are."
And people are trying those other things. Are the "other things" going to
dethrone MS? Maybe someday, but probably not any time real soon. Are some
people going to continue to try other things? You betcha, until this country
and the rest of the world succumbs to sloth and loses its drive to
experiment.
So whether or not an OS comes with an email client, or a browser, or even a
calculator, that doesn't mean something else can't be tried. And if the
owner/user of that OS decides not to use a different email client, or
browser, or even a calculator, that doesn't necessarily mean they are
blindly following the MS road. That just means they didn't like the
alternatives, or they didn't feel it necessary to try an alternative.
Just my HAWO :-)
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"SC Tom" wrote in message
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So whether or not an OS comes with an email client, or a browser, or even
a calculator, that doesn't mean something else can't be tried. And if the
owner/user of that OS decides not to use a different email client, or
browser, or even a calculator, that doesn't necessarily mean they are
blindly following the MS road. That just means they didn't like the
alternatives, or they didn't feel it necessary to try an alternative.
Just my HAWO :-)

I hope you didn't take too much notice of me grumbling. I was just
disgruntled to be
losing XP. I had given Vista a miss and didn't want to change yasee

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"Ophelia" wrote in message
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"SC Tom" wrote in message
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So whether or not an OS comes with an email client, or a browser, or even
a calculator, that doesn't mean something else can't be tried. And if the
owner/user of that OS decides not to use a different email client, or
browser, or even a calculator, that doesn't necessarily mean they are
blindly following the MS road. That just means they didn't like the
alternatives, or they didn't feel it necessary to try an alternative.
Just my HAWO :-)

I hope you didn't take too much notice of me grumbling. I was just
disgruntled to be
losing XP. I had given Vista a miss and didn't want to change yasee

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Not at all.
You don't have to lose XP. It'll be around for as long as you don't have a
program that requires a newer OS. Some people in these groups are still
running Win98SE. I'm sure XP will be around at least as long as that :-)
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"SC Tom" wrote in message
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"Ophelia" wrote in message
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"SC Tom" wrote in message
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So whether or not an OS comes with an email client, or a browser, or
even
a calculator, that doesn't mean something else can't be tried. And if
the
owner/user of that OS decides not to use a different email client, or
browser, or even a calculator, that doesn't necessarily mean they are
blindly following the MS road. That just means they didn't like the
alternatives, or they didn't feel it necessary to try an alternative.
Just my HAWO :-)

I hope you didn't take too much notice of me grumbling. I was just
disgruntled to be
losing XP. I had given Vista a miss and didn't want to change yasee

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Not at all.
You don't have to lose XP. It'll be around for as long as you don't have a
program that requires a newer OS. Some people in these groups are still
running Win98SE. I'm sure XP will be around at least as long as that :-)

I know, but I don't have it now and I am grumbling! *harrumph*

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