Originally Posted by
Mr Optimistic
Two questions: in your opinion is windows firewall sufficient for home computers without third party stuff (windows xp & 7 with banking stuff), and is outlook 2010 really ok for home use (including reading from web clients ) ? Interested as I have become a creature of habit and perhaps could do with re-think.
Saab's answered this above. However for my opinion, yes Windows Firewall is what all my customers use and none have ever had need of another (and i'm not constantly plagued with difficult issues to troubleshoot via the use of another firewall, as is usually the case with machines brought to me via friends and family). Outlook 2010 is fine for use in both home and business scenarios, however it may be overkill for POP usage as the main benefit I mentioned was using it against Exchange servers (where previous versions of Outlook only allowed the local offline caching of the main mailbox, and 2010 allows it for all connected mailboxes - making remote usage against a multiple mailbox scenario considerably speedier and more reliable). For home POP/IMAP usage, consider Eudora (although you may wish to do your own investigations against whether Windows 7's network stack is compatible with the earlier versions of Eudora if you choose to go that way - I must confess i've not used it since approx 2002)