“Outlook” versus “Outlook Express” debacle) with another: “Windows Mail” versus Microsoft has apparently replaced one naming confusion (the infamous If you’re running IE7 on Vista, then you have Outlook Express. If you’re running IE7, but not on Windows Vista you can download and install You can download an Internet Explorer 6 SP1 package, and be If you’re running IE6 on pretty much any operating system, then you have the Or two – say, the options dialog – things start to look very familiar Most of the UI has beenĬhanged significantly, which you may or may not like. Name, at it’s core, it really is just Outlook Express. Menu, even though Outlook Express is still installed.)Įven though Windows Live Mail is installed as a new program, and has a new (Though it does appear to remove the Outlook Express menu item from your Start However when you fire up Windows Live Mail for the first time it doesĪutomatically import all your Outlook Express mail, contacts and settings. Outlook Express is not affected, it’s not updated or Windows Live Mail is more like a new mail program that you download and Version of Outlook Express, except it’s available on Windows Vista only.įor the rest of us, there does now appear to be a replacement for OutlookĮxpress: Windows Live Mail (marked as being in Beta at this Windows Vista users already have a replacement: Windows Mail. Replacement for Outlook Express: Windows Live Mail” “For the rest of us, there does now appear to be a There’s no way to get Outlook Express from Microsoft at all. There’s no updated Outlook Express with it. With the introduction of Internet Explorer 7, Outlook Express was apparently Which is all well and good until something If you have Windows XP, then you have InternetĮxplorer and Outlook Express. That means that Outlook Express isĪ part of Windows XP as well. There simply was no separate download or installationīut things were even slightly more complex than that. The way to install or upgrade Outlook Express was to install or upgrade Up until InternetĮxplorer (IE) version 7, Outlook Express was a component of Internet Explorer.

Outlook Express (OE) was never a stand-alone install. Let’s look at what happened, and what you should probably do. Reader pointed me at new information that fundamentally changed the answer.

If you are running Windows 7, please see these two articles: Where is Windows Mail, or Outlook Express, in Windows 7? and What is Windows 7’s “Windows XP Mode”? (And can I use it to get Outlook Express back?)Īrticle is a major revision of a previously posted article.

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