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Outlook Express
A component of Microsoft Windows
Details
Type Email client, News client
Included with Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003
Replaced by Windows Mail
Related components
Internet Explorer
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Microsoft Internet Mail and News

Microsoft Outlook Express is an email program made by Microsoft. It is a free version of Outlook, also made by Microsoft. Microsoft's Outlook Express was discontinued in 2006 with the release of its new operating system, Windows Vista, which has Windows Mail instead.

Problems

Outlook Express needs a database to work, sometimes this database gets damaged when there are too many emails or when the database gets compacted. Compaction is needed when its size gets too large to handle well. Also, sometimes emails or attachments were infected with viruses.

See also

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