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Posted By admin On 19.01.20I have used OE for my e-mail since dirt (or so it seems)! I always like the fact that OE supported separate identities, which allowed me to keep my business addresses separate from my personal addresses.
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But the separate identities have a downside: You have to switch between identities to see what's come into each identities Inbox, and when you're in one identity, you can't see what's happening in the other(s). So I decided it was time to bite the bullet and switch to Windows Live Mail (which I have on my Win 7 laptop) and just installed it. To my surprise, I notice there was no ribbon at the top like there is on my Win 7 laptop. I looked for several minutes for a 'view' option that would show the ribbon. Doesn't exist.
I then went to M$ WLM help and found the following statement: 'All of the Windows Live Essentials programs will run only on Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit editions), Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit editions) with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and the Platform Update for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2008 with SP2 and the Platform Update for Windows Server 2008. We apologize for any inconvenience.
If you're using Windows XP, we recommend that you upgrade to Windows 7.' Well, like many things M$ says, the statement is at least partly wrong. WLM obviously DOES run on an XP machine because I'm running it. However, it appears that not every feature is available: to wit, the ribbon and icons in place of text on the toolbar. Am I right about this, or is there some way to make the ribbon appear and get icons to replace the toolbar text? Click to expand.Yeah, Terry, we definitely are.
I, too, have despised the 'ribbon' in MS Office 2010, which I have on my Win 7 laptop. It alone has caused me to continue using Office 2000 (with compatibility pack). M$ does not take into account vertical space when designing programs. While the extreme height of the ribbon is not much of an issue on a desktop monitor, it is WAY too big (vertically) for a laptop screen.
MSO 2010 has a steep learning curve when you've been used to 2000 or 2003. In addition, I think it makes Office less productive; takes more time to find the function you want. However, I've had occasion to use MSO 2010 and Live Mail more frequently in the last 3 months, and have to admit that I'm beginning to warm up to the ribbon. Thanks for confirming what I thought.
Have marked the thread as 'solved'. Although I marked this thread as 'solved' yesterday, I want to add one parting shot at M$.
After using Windows Live Mail (WLM) for a couple of days, noticing what menu choices it had, noticing that the ribbon and toolbar icons that appear when it's used with Win 7 are missing on an XP machine, and observing the extreme ease with which it automatically took all the settings from my OE to create an account, it has become obvious what happens when an OE user installs WLM. You don't really have WLM. What you have is still OE with a WLM skin. The final tip-off came this morning. I was aware that WLM is missing some features that OE had because I provide tech support to a friend who is sight-impaired.
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She prefers to receive e-mails in which the text is all caps, 18pt and bold in order to make it easy for her to read. A major help in making the text readable is the addition of a yellow background. When she recently got a new Win 7 laptop, I set her up with WLM. First thing I noticed was that colored backgrounds, a standard feature in OE, are unavailable in WLM. Today on my XP desktop with WLM installed, I clicked 'Format' on the menubar.
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Background colors are available in the version of WLM that gets installed on an XP computer. Conclusion: WLM, when installed on XP computers, is actually OE minus separate identity support and with a slightly different 'face'. I hope this helps anyone thinking about putting WLM on their XP computer.
Access your e-mail, contacts, and calendar even when you're offline. And Windows Live Mail helps you manage multiple e-mail accounts—Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail Plus, and more—in one program. Offline access - Older messages and calendar events are accessible in Mail, even when you’re offline.
Event reminders - Your calendar in Windows Live Mail helps you keep track of all the important stuff you’ve got coming up. Sync with web calendar - You can edit events in your calendar in Mail, even when you’re offline. Shared calendars - Your time isn’t always your own—there are family and friends who might need to know your schedule.