Comments on: What about mail in Windows 7?

By: Rowland

Rowland — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:36:14 +0000

Windows Mail is gone in Windows 7. Microsoft now want you to use its “Windows Live” mail client.

I don’t think that “Windows Mail” can be upgraded to “Windows Live” easily.

My suggestion would be to start thinking about moving to another mail program. Thunderbird (from the same people that created Firefox) is a good alternative to Windows Mail.

The added benefit of moving to Thunderbird (which is free) is that you no longer have to play the “Microsoft Idea of the Month” game with it’s whole mail,live,bing strategy that always seem to result in moving goal posts.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:07:03 +0000

Well… My wife is so attached to Windows Mail that she doesn’t want to upgrade to Windows 7…

I did hear that you could download it separately, is that correct?

By: RowlandOConnor

RowlandOConnor — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:41:22 +0000

I have not so “fond” memories of trying to recover backups (messages and folders) with MS Mail.

There were thousands of small files scattered around, each needed backup and then restore. Even restoring all these files didn’t work, my mail was lost:(

With MS Outlook, at least there is only one .pst file to manage on backup/restore.