Outlook 2003 trial and MS Office 2007....
 

I have a new Laptop which came with a trial version of office 2003. I decided to get office home and student 2007 as an upgrade, but after loading it, I noticed that it doesn't come with outlook.

So the trial has run out and I have setup outlook to deal with all my e-mail, except I can no longer send from it....

How can I get outlook 2003 as a standalone? I have Vista, but I don't like the mail client that comes with it. I can't get it to check web based accounts for example.

Why is it so complicated whenever you change computers.... I will end up going mac at this rate!

I've searched and searched, but can only find outlook 2007 and there is no way I'm paying £100 for that on its own. I'm annoyed enough having spent £100 on office 2007 and then finding it doesn't do what I want it to.:ugh::ugh:

And before anyone starts, yes I know I should have read the box first, but I assumed it would all be as normal.

Vista has windows mail that is an upgraded version of Outlook Express if thats any good, see

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...a19a31033.mspx

There is an original copy of outlook 2003 on ebay at a fiver so far..... going for the older version makes sense as people upgrading to 2007 sell of their old version cheap..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MICROSOFT-OUTL...QQcmdZViewItem

Indeed if you buy it from the states of ebay people are selling new and unopened versions for £18 ish plus postage buy it now...... I cannot see why that won't work on a UK PC see

http://search.ebay.co.uk/microsoft-o...sPageNameZWD2S