Why Outlook Express?
The popularity of Outlook Express is primarily due to the following reasons: 1) You just cant beat Microsoft on the GUI front. The user interface of Outlook Express is pretty simple and intuitive. 2) Address Book facility is pretty useful and also easy to maintain. 3) For dialup users the facility to stack up the mails in outbox without having to connect till the moment when actually to send is a good feature. 4) Search facility is pretty good. It allows users to find any mail based on queries. 5) Message Filters feature is also pretty good. Why Not Outlook Express? 1) Outlook Express is the breeding grounds for a lot of email viruses, which leverage the outlook address book. 2) The same viruses also use the preview pane of Outlook Express for activation. But the news from Microsoft stable is that with Outlook Express 6.0 these bugs have been patched. But rest assured the hackers bandwagon would get some more bug in this software. Winding Up Despite the virus threat, Outlook Express is
