Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail - neither for hotmail on Windows Server 2008?

Hello,

I typically check one of my hotmail accounts with outloook express that I
also use with newsgroups but in Win2k8 you use Windows Mail instead of OE.
When I start to set up my e-mail it tells me they don't support it for http
hotmail any more I should use Windows Live Mail - I go to set it up but it
says it doesn't run on Windows Server. I realize there are other products
I can use but I am curious if there is a free MS product that can do what
Outlook Express did?

I'm playing around with Windows Server 2008 x64 as a desktop - seems to
perform significantly better than Vista SP1 - not sure why but I've read a
lot of theories - but for me it seems to perform better.

Thanks

Hello boe,

Windows mail is able to use the MS newsgroup for example. And as you are
realizing it is only hotmail. But why will you use a server operating system
for working with Office Applications or Mail or Internet only? Server 2008
and Vista are shairng more or less the same code.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hello,
>
> I typically check one of my hotmail accounts with outloook express
> that I also use with newsgroups but in Win2k8 you use Windows Mail
> instead of OE. When I start to set up my e-mail it tells me they don't
> support it for http hotmail any more I should use Windows Live Mail -
> I go to set it up but it says it doesn't run on Windows Server. I
> realize there are other products I can use but I am curious if there
> is a free MS product that can do what Outlook Express did?
>
> I'm playing around with Windows Server 2008 x64 as a desktop - seems
> to perform significantly better than Vista SP1 - not sure why but I've
> read a lot of theories - but for me it seems to perform better.
>
> Thanks
>

I was testing out the rumor that Windows Server 2008 runs faster than
Vista - and so far without running any benchmarks - it does appear to run
signifcantly faster than Vista SP1 on the exact same hardware.

Once I have it fully configured I will run some benchmarks but at this point
it seems to be a significant upgrade in performance from Vista - comparable
to XP from what I can see but again I haven't run any benchmarks yet so I
can't say much for sure.

There are a lot of articles claiming it runs faster and I wanted to find out
for myself as there are some people who claime Vista runs as fast as XP but
anyone who actually has run benchmarks knows that to be rubbish so I thought
I'd see if there was any truth to Windows Server running as fast as XP and
from what I can tell this rumor is true.


"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:ff16fb66970a78ca713bee238942@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Hello boe,
>
> Windows mail is able to use the MS newsgroup for example. And as you are
> realizing it is only hotmail. But why will you use a server operating
> system for working with Office Applications or Mail or Internet only?
> Server 2008 and Vista are shairng more or less the same code.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I typically check one of my hotmail accounts with outloook express
>> that I also use with newsgroups but in Win2k8 you use Windows Mail
>> instead of OE. When I start to set up my e-mail it tells me they don't
>> support it for http hotmail any more I should use Windows Live Mail -
>> I go to set it up but it says it doesn't run on Windows Server. I
>> realize there are other products I can use but I am curious if there
>> is a free MS product that can do what Outlook Express did?
>>
>> I'm playing around with Windows Server 2008 x64 as a desktop - seems
>> to perform significantly better than Vista SP1 - not sure why but I've
>> read a lot of theories - but for me it seems to perform better.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>

While I can use the workgroups with windows mail, and can send e-mails from
windows mail using windows mail it doesn't let me see my inbox. It won't
let me configure that far - it says to install live mail which I downloaded
but says it doesn't run on Windows Server or XP 64.

"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:ff16fb66970a78ca713bee238942@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Hello boe,
>
> Windows mail is able to use the MS newsgroup for example. And as you are
> realizing it is only hotmail. But why will you use a server operating
> system for working with Office Applications or Mail or Internet only?
> Server 2008 and Vista are shairng more or less the same code.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I typically check one of my hotmail accounts with outloook express
>> that I also use with newsgroups but in Win2k8 you use Windows Mail
>> instead of OE. When I start to set up my e-mail it tells me they don't
>> support it for http hotmail any more I should use Windows Live Mail -
>> I go to set it up but it says it doesn't run on Windows Server. I
>> realize there are other products I can use but I am curious if there
>> is a free MS product that can do what Outlook Express did?
>>
>> I'm playing around with Windows Server 2008 x64 as a desktop - seems
>> to perform significantly better than Vista SP1 - not sure why but I've
>> read a lot of theories - but for me it seems to perform better.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>

I think that you will find that Server runs faster than Vista because it
is designed to run as a server (and therefore doesn't have a lot of the
features of the client OS). If you turn all of these on anyway, you will be
very close to Vista in all respects!

"boe" <boe_d@nospam1hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OGBKIhxoIHA.2160@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> While I can use the workgroups with windows mail, and can send e-mails
> from windows mail using windows mail it doesn't let me see my inbox. It
> won't let me configure that far - it says to install live mail which I
> downloaded but says it doesn't run on Windows Server or XP 64.
>
> "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:ff16fb66970a78ca713bee238942@msnews.microsoft.com...
>> Hello boe,
>>
>> Windows mail is able to use the MS newsgroup for example. And as you are
>> realizing it is only hotmail. But why will you use a server operating
>> system for working with Office Applications or Mail or Internet only?
>> Server 2008 and Vista are shairng more or less the same code.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Meinolf Weber
>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>> confers no rights.
>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I typically check one of my hotmail accounts with outloook express
>>> that I also use with newsgroups but in Win2k8 you use Windows Mail
>>> instead of OE. When I start to set up my e-mail it tells me they don't
>>> support it for http hotmail any more I should use Windows Live Mail -
>>> I go to set it up but it says it doesn't run on Windows Server. I
>>> realize there are other products I can use but I am curious if there
>>> is a free MS product that can do what Outlook Express did?
>>>
>>> I'm playing around with Windows Server 2008 x64 as a desktop - seems
>>> to perform significantly better than Vista SP1 - not sure why but I've
>>> read a lot of theories - but for me it seems to perform better.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

I've turned on the visual aero interface, I've got gadgets/sidebar enabled -
so far still much better than Vista. There may be a feature in Vista that
bogs down a machine that I haven't enabled in Win2k8 but so far it is
significantly faster than Vista and doesn't use up the processor like Vista
does (it does use a lot of memory though (compared to XP) but I have 2 GIGs
so that isn't an issue.

"Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
news:#0tCqg3oIHA.3652@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> I think that you will find that Server runs faster than Vista because it
> is designed to run as a server (and therefore doesn't have a lot of the
> features of the client OS). If you turn all of these on anyway, you will
> be very close to Vista in all respects!
>
> "boe" <boe_d@nospam1hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OGBKIhxoIHA.2160@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> While I can use the workgroups with windows mail, and can send e-mails
>> from windows mail using windows mail it doesn't let me see my inbox. It
>> won't let me configure that far - it says to install live mail which I
>> downloaded but says it doesn't run on Windows Server or XP 64.
>>
>> "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
>> news:ff16fb66970a78ca713bee238942@msnews.microsoft.com...
>>> Hello boe,
>>>
>>> Windows mail is able to use the MS newsgroup for example. And as you
>>> are realizing it is only hotmail. But why will you use a server
>>> operating system for working with Office Applications or Mail or
>>> Internet only? Server 2008 and Vista are shairng more or less the same
>>> code.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Meinolf Weber
>>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>>> confers no rights.
>>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>>> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I typically check one of my hotmail accounts with outloook express
>>>> that I also use with newsgroups but in Win2k8 you use Windows Mail
>>>> instead of OE. When I start to set up my e-mail it tells me they don't
>>>> support it for http hotmail any more I should use Windows Live Mail -
>>>> I go to set it up but it says it doesn't run on Windows Server. I
>>>> realize there are other products I can use but I am curious if there
>>>> is a free MS product that can do what Outlook Express did?
>>>>
>>>> I'm playing around with Windows Server 2008 x64 as a desktop - seems
>>>> to perform significantly better than Vista SP1 - not sure why but I've
>>>> read a lot of theories - but for me it seems to perform better.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>