Win 7 - Live Mail or Outlook 2007 ?

nheather · 03-05-2010, 3:55 PM

I have two options

Windows Live Mail

or

Microsoft Outlook 2007

Which would you go for.

BTW - I appreciate that there may be others that may be better but I want to stick to one of these.

I'm using Outlook Express on XP at the moment. I know how to migrate to Live Mail and have done it a couple of times.

For Outlook I assume I would migrate to Outlook on XP (it would be the 2003 version). This would produce a .PST file which I could then copy across to the Win 7 machine and use with Outlook 2007.

Cheers,

Nigel

Singh400 · 04-05-2010, 9:34 AM

I use WLM. But recently I have been thinking about switching over to Outlook 2010. No reason as to why, just fancied a changed.

WLM is certainly more nicer to look at and use. Whereas Outlook feels alot more corporate and serious.

nheather · 04-05-2010, 9:57 AM

Many thanks.

I've done lots of googling and opinion seems to be 50/50.

Think I'll just stick to WLM.

Cheers,

Nigel

MarkE19 · 04-05-2010, 5:01 PM

I use Outlook 2007 as I already had the full Office suite and therefore it seem silly to ignore it. Generally speaking I think Outlook is about the best email program going (and I'm not generally a big MS fanboy) and the Calendar and Appointment features come in very handy at reminding me where I should be

But Outlook is very expensive to buy on it's own or to upgrade the version of Office you buy for it. Therefore I would not be tempted to pay for it and would stick to WLM etc if I did not already have a copy.

Mark.

nheather · 04-05-2010, 6:46 PM

Yep that's why I'm considering it. I have an enterprise version of office so I have Outlook 2007 available for free.

Cheers,

Nigel

hyperfish · 04-05-2010, 7:04 PM

With Outlook you can use Outlook Connector to add your hotmail and gmail accounts etc. Not sure if WLM can do this.

nheather · 04-05-2010, 7:52 PM

Think WLM does hotmail, yahoo and gmail out of the box.

Also does newsfeeds - not sure if outlook does that - didn't on earlier versions.

Cheers,

Nigel

Mr Incredible · 09-06-2010, 12:46 AM

Does WLM handle mail/email merges? I think it doesn't, which would be a PITA for me. That and faxing out to a list of people. OL 2007 does a reasonable job with the BCM addition.