Vista - Message from "Microsoft Outlook Express team"

I got this just now from the "Microsoft Outlook Express Team"

"Dear Microsoft Outlook Express customer,

"You may have received an e-mail from us letting you know that Microsoft is
planning to retire the DAV protocol that Outlook Express uses to access
Windows Live Hotmail. In response to customer feedback requesting more time
to evaluate alternative solutions, we have decided to postpone retiring DAV
and we are investigating other alternatives for accessing Windows Live
Hotmail via Outlook Express. This means that if you use Outlook Express to
access your Windows Live Hotmail account, you will continue to be able to do
so beyond the previously announced June 30 transition deadline. We will be
sure to update you once we have additional plans to share and early enough
in advance to help ensure a smooth transition in the future."

Then it goes on to say that I am always welcome to download and use our next
generation free email client, Windows Live Mail. They signed it the
"Windows Live Mail Team".

Please ignore if this is a duplicate. Timing of these messages and which
accounts get them seems to follow some algorithm that I can't guess.

Cheers,

Earle

actually I want to thank MS that they sent out the original message back in
April that they will cut of OE users for Hotmail and I switched over to
Windows Live Mail email client. It works so much better then OE to check
Hotmail accounts.

With OE sometimes all the hotmail messages got lost and had to be reloaded.
A friend of mine with lots of messages in the inbox had that problem all the
time. With Windows Live Mail this has never happened again. There are a few
annoyances in the interface of Windows Live mail but overall I find it a very
nice upgrade.

I have all my friends now switched over to Windows Live Mail from OE and
they have no problems either.

I just hope the find message bar can be hidden in the future and the the
Message header can be shrunk down to OE size. That are the only complaints I
have. Inserting GIF support in an email would be great too.

cf. http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/...708!5745.entry
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Earle Horton wrote:

I also received this message from the Windows Outlook Express Team but before
I upgrade from Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail, I'd like to save a copy
of my local email folders. I know that MS OutLook keeps my local email in a
..pst file but I can't find the equivalent for Outlook Express. Where does
Outlook Express keep my local email folders?

Thanks,
Steve

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

When you install Windows Live Mail, your OE messages and contacts will be
imported by default.

=> You'll find support for OE in this public newsgroup:
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

Via the web-interface:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xpress.general

Via your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general

=> You'll find support for Windows Live Mail (WLM) in this public newsgroup:
microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

Via the web-interface:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...e.mail.desktop

Via your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...e.mail.desktop
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


Steve Collins wrote:

Outlook Express uses DBX files, one per folder. In OE look at Tools,
Options, Maintenance, Store Folder. You may need to enable showing
system/hidden files and folders to see the actual files and folder.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Steve Collins" <Steve Collins@xxxxxx> wrote in
message news:3A73F427-6A29-4469-A322-14811A756364@xxxxxx

I hope you noted the use of 'retire' instead of the 'deprecate' they
were probably itching to use...
--
Noel

"Earle Horton" <earleh_nospam_@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:#DxhMIQ0IHA.416@xxxxxx

In Spanish, "depreciar" means "to beg, to implore" but "despreciar" means
"to scorn, to despise, to reject". In English spoken by normal people
"deprecate" is much closer to the second usage and is often mistaken for
"depreciate".

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deprecate

What appears to be happening here, in the normal language, is a case of
lexical merging. It is unfortunate that the computer industry has chosen to
create a neologism meaning "announce as eventually obsolete" for the same
word. Or perhaps the double entendre is either intentional or a Freudian
Slip.

There are an awful lot of people out there, who use "antiquated" operating
systems like W2k, W98 or even XP with no intention of ever, but ever
downloading Windows Live Mail. If you are counting heads though I suppose
it is good to have them as active Hotmail accounts. The message seems to be
saying, "Please don't stop using our service; we need the head count."

Cheers,

Earle

"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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