OUTLOOK VS OUTLOOK EXPRESS

OUTLOOK VS. OUTLOOK EXPRESS

Myth: Outlook is the "full version" of the free Outlook Express

Not in a million years. Outlook was developed by the Office program group as a Personal Information Manager (PIM) and e-mail program and positioned as the Exchange client to replace Schedule+ and the original Exchange client. Outlook Express was developed by the Internet Explorer group to provide simple mail and news handling for Windows users. The feature sets in each program are targeted to the expected the user base:

Outlook is a business e-mail client while Outlook Express is for home users. As a result, Outlook does some things better than OE, like calendaring, contacts, mail merge, and tasks; while OE has inline image display and newsgroups and is less complicated to use. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olexpr.htm and

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=257824 for more information on the differences between Outlook and Outlook Express.