Difference between Ms Outlook & Outlook Express

[BogdanBgd]

can anyone one enlighten me concerning the difference between Ms Outlook & Outlook Express ???

i have now Ms Outlook and pop3 configuration so that my Gmail account to forwar the messages which i receive there .... (****y yahoo doesn't support pop3 dor free) .... does it worth going for outlook express ?

What is the "tip" betwen those 2 ?

[Variable]

Outlook Express is the baby brother of Outlook. The man difference for a home user is how it works with other MS office tools (Word as your mail composer for instance), calendar and the more in depth Contact list. There is no benefit from moving from Outlook to OE. It is a downgrade.

[mjc]

Outlook is a full fledged mail app.

OE is a 'lite' app, but not a stripped down Outlook version.

Outlook has slightly more security features than OE (yeah, well that is kind of an oxymoron...), and originally was targetted toward business customers. It lacked a few of the 'eye candy' features of OE, but in the latest versions Outlook has more 'eye candy' than any one (sane) person really needs (no, I'm not tired of getting bloated nearly 1 MB Outlook generated, 'eye candified' emails from my wife's boss....no, not at all).

Outlook also has features for handling local network mail that OE doesn't.

Basically if you are happy with what you are running, there is no real reason to switch...overall Outlook is a more 'complete' app and has the potential to do much more than OE.

[BogdanBgd]

thx a lot for the info ... of course, now that i was enlighten concerning this matter i wont downgrade to OE. bye