Don

Hey gang,

Installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit over the weekend, dual booting with my XP
Pro install, so far I am finding myself liking it more and more.

I have set up newsgroups in windows mail, and email access. I really like
some of the features of windows mail versus the older Outlook Express,
especially the calendar feature, and the spellcheck included. I use Outlook
2002 ( from Office XP ) on my XP Pro install, mainly for the calendar
feature, so was pleased to see this included in windows mail. Not going to
try to install Office XP on my Vista, as I understand there would be issues
with that. I think what I have with Windows Mail though, will serve me ok.

I see where another program, Windows Live Mail is available as well. I
checked on the link I found, and really did not see a lot about it. What is
the general consensus here, is the Windows Live Mail program much better
than the included windows mail program? I don't really understand what the
differences are here.

Secondly, as far as the Microsoft newsgroups, I am using the Microsoft
Communities server at this time to connect to them. It keeps prompting me to
sign in to have access to community features. I presume this is the old
passport login, never really used mine for anything but I was able to sign
in with it - not really sure what this does for me, any real benefits to
signing in? If it is mainly to have something like Messenger running, I am
really not into that, have no real need for that at this time.

Thanks for any tips,



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Don

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