I HATE Windows Live Mail

wysiwyg said:

Barman58 said:

Just got Office 2007 so I'm starting to look at Outlook to see if its any better than Live, but so far its not looking very promising.

Come on now, Don't be a stick-in-the-mud, you need to look at office 2010

At £49 who's complaining.

PS. I've already looked and I can't see a lot of difference.

J/k and Office 2007 is a good application suite - I use 2007 and 2010 on a daily basis and although they do have a lot in common - I find 2010 just feels better for me

I am content with Office 2007 and Outlook 2007.

I found Outlook is a lot slower, and makes it more complicated to add Email accounts, and cannot find a way to create separate identities, as it does in WLM, that does it automatically

fireberd said:

I'm not a fan of WLM which sort of looks like Hotmail and the "new improved" Hotmail is crap.

I'm a retiree as well, and I have 3 Email accounts 1 Pop and 2 Live in WLM, to me Outlook is archaic, and slow.

One shortcut on the Taskbar, and bang I have 3 indivual accounts at my fingertips, complete with all assocated folders.

wysiwyg said:

I found Outlook is a lot slower, and makes it more complicated to add Email accounts, and cannot find a way to create separate identities, as it does in WLM, that does it automatically

wysiwyg said:

fireberd said:

I'm not a fan of WLM which sort of looks like Hotmail and the "new improved" Hotmail is crap.

I'm a retiree as well, and I have 3 Email accounts 1 Pop and 2 Live in WLM, to me Outlook is archaic, and slow.

One shortcut on the Taskbar, and bang I have 3 indivual accounts at my fingertips, complete with all assocated folders.

I am currently running 7 separate accounts in Outlook 2010 and multiple calendars, todo lists Etc.
The most I've had to do to set up an account (all IMAP or Live Mail via Connector)' is enter the eMail address and password. These accounts are also synchronised accross multiple machines

wysiwyg said:

I found Outlook is a lot slower, and makes it more complicated to add Email accounts, and cannot find a way to create separate identities, as it does in WLM, that does it automatically

I was able to set up four separate identities in Outlook 2007 using subfolders under the inbox folder and using rules. It works fine.

If I recall correctly the concept of identities was originated for multiple users on a single machine before the availability of user accounts in windows (windows 3.1 I know had something of this sort) - as with so much in windows this was retained long after it was actually needed. the easiest way to have multiple identities for email or anything else for that matter is to create individual windows user accounts for each identity