"Managing" Outlook vs Outlook Express

[Mr Optimistic]

bottom spots

that sounds ominous, the version of Outlook I was contemplating was indeed 2010. Got the whole office package through work discounts for £8 so maybe I shouldn't whine.

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Just use a different news client. You don't have to run OE for news. Any NNTP client would do (and there are a multitude better than OE).

Yeahbut I'm after proper integration, so I can forward from one to another, send a message to both a newsgroup and a person, etc, without cutting and pasting or otherwise switching from one application to another.

Example: someone moans about the council on a newsgroup, I forward the post via email to the relevant council officer, problem gets fixed, I get votes

[Ancient Observer]

Thanks

Thanks all for the help.
I am just moving towards the end of day 1 of using Outlook. My poor copy of Express is sad about this, but I thought I might join the 20th century. It looks lonely, and its loneliness is making me feel guilty.
it is even Outlook 2007.
it is difficult to do without a help-desk and/or a training course...............
I know, if in doubt read the instructions.

In the end, I decided that i had to migrate as the miserable so and sos and Msoft will not let me move to MS 7 with my trusty Express, and eventually, I guess I have to buy 7.

[BEagle]

Outlook Express has suited my needs for years now and I still use it for managing my 5 e-mail accounts as I want them, not as Micro$oft thinks I want them.....

With Office 2007, I had to obtain a third party spellchecker for OE, because there's a bug in Word 2007 which prevents OE using its spellchecker.

I agree that Windows Live Mail - in fact Windows Live anything - is an utter hemorrhoid; I tried it, fought with its abysmal functionality, then binned it. Micro$oft aren't listening - they of course know best and simply refuse to accept that they screwed up when they stopped supporting OE. As they did when they stopped supporting Photo Editor.....