Windows 7....and Windows Mail Client

I will be doing an InPlace Vista to Windows7 Upgrade. Currently using
Windows Mail which is part of Vista. After the Upgrade to Windows7, and
since I assume Vista will be replaced by Windows 7, will Windows Mail still
be running? Will it run under Windows7?

Or, will Windows Mail no longer be an appll that will be present on my PC
and I will need to Install Windows LIVE Mail?

Once you upgrade to Windows 7 you will no longer have a functional
Windows Mail program. That is why it important that you upgrade to
Windows Live Mail now, which will import all your WM data. Then you
can back up the Windows Live Mail data with this free third party utility

Then you use the same utility to restore the Windows Live Mail data
(after first installing Windows Live Mail on Windows 7).

It does not transfer contacts, but you can easily copy and restore
the folder C:\Users\username\Contacts.

This might be a good time for amny to jump off the MS-Windows Mail
issues and use Thunderbird. If you switch to Thunderbird, it will work
on XP, Vista and presumably Win 7 as well as other platforms all the same.

Vista mail sure didn't last long. Guess hey couldn't fix it.

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

I don't MSFT had any intention of "fixing" Windows Mail. It was just a
temporary program to release with Vista, until WLM was in shape to be
released.

I don't MSFT had any intention of "fixing" Windows Mail. It was just a
temporary program to release with Vista, until WLM was in shape to be
released.

It does not require much intelligence to figure out that if you want email
software for free, then everyone upgrading to Windows 7 won't use Microsoft
software that does not cost extra.

Not sure I understand the point you are trying to make.
Windows Mail --> Windows Live Mail has an easy (automatic) upgrade path.
Windows Mail --> Thunderbird, not so much.

Yes, my thinking was incorrect. Windows Live Mail is available for free and
you have said many times that it works in Windows 7.

That is not what the MVPs were told at the time, and it only turned out to
be the case in retrospect after it became clear the MVPs and the public were
misinformed. They never fixed OE either.

But then you could also say that about Vista itself.

When will that be then?

We need Windows 7 groups on the Microfoft News Server!

never

[boyvan49]

Thunderbird doesn't transfer data correctly from .csv files and that is the only option I have found. Still looking for a solution....Windows live mail sucks.

I read my message again and I still don't understand what I said.

My WLM requires my Hotmail account to be logged
on to work well. I do not like the layout.

You seem to have some wrong conceptions about Windows Live Mail.
I suggest you ask for assistance in the WLM newsgroup:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...e.mail.desktop
or via your news reader: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...e.mail.desktop

Can you please supply the name of a third party email client that will
install and work with Window 7. Vista Windows Mail was really bad, but
Windows Live Mail is by far the worst!

In my business I need a mail client just like Outlook Express so that our
application programs can send groups of email from the application to the
outbox so we can send out small batches of mail. These features worked best
with Outlook Express and did work with Vista Mail but the features DO NOT
work with Live Mail.

When will Microsoft be fixing these problems. When will a bug fix be
available for the mail programs?

What amazes me is that "people out there" with businesses, organizations,
and whatever, depend on light-weight mail programs for their commercial
correspondence in the first place. Always wanting the cream of the crop for
free. Just buy a copy of Outlook and write it off with your business
expenses at year's end and be done with the headaches of always trying to
get something to work for you that isn't designed with all the bells and
whistles to do what you need in the first place.

Microsoft seems to be making a point in that it is fixing no bugs at all in
its mail clients. Even Walmail has bugs it won't fix. So there is little
likelihood that MS is going to come up with a quality mail client with its
current development team and its managers.

So some are recommending switching to Thunderbird as well as other programs.
I haven't investigated such, but that approach seems certainly more viable
than getting MS support for the users.

There is also no reason to jump on the Win7 bandwagon (and plenty of reasons
not to), if your current machines still work.