Microsoft Outlook Express

Microsoft Outlook Express: Discontinued Email Client

A discontinued email client offering basic features like POP3, SMTP support, contact management, calendar, and newsgroup access, included with Internet Explorer versions 6 through 10.

What is Microsoft Outlook Express?

Microsoft Outlook Express (also known as OE) is an email and news client that was included with Internet Explorer versions 6 through 10 as a default component of the operating system. It was discontinued in 2012.

Outlook Express offered basic email features like POP3 and SMTP support for sending and receiving email, contact management, calendar, and Usenet newsgroup access. It had a simple, streamlined interface that made it easy for basic home and business users to access email and newsgroups.

As web-based email became more popular in the late 2000s, Microsoft began phasing out Outlook Express in favor of web-based mail services like Hotmail (now Outlook.com). The rise of other email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird also contributed to the decline in Outlook Express's popularity.

With the release of Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft stopped including Outlook Express as a component of Windows and recommended Microsoft Outlook as its replacement going forward. However, for many years Outlook Express met the basic email needs of casual Windows users.

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