Oct 25, 2007
Microsoft offers two products that contain the name Outlook. Although the name Outlook appears in both titles, they are not the same program, and they do not offer the same features.
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Outlook 2003 provides an integrated solution for managing and organizing e-mail messages, schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, and other information. Outlook works directly with other programs in the Microsoft Office System. Outlook delivers innovations that you can use to manage your communications, organize your work, and work better with other people - all from one place. Features found only in Outlook include support for Microsoft Exchange Server e-mail accounts, Out of Office automatic e-mail replies, group calendar scheduling, multiple address books, tasks, notes, junk e-mail filtering, automatic backup, and archiving of items.
Microsoft Outlook Express 6 Included as part of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows, Outlook Express is a basic e-mail program. Outlook Express offers standard Internet e-mail and newsgroup access and supports Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) e-mail accounts. Even though Outlook Express is free and allows you to send and receive e-mail messages, it doesnt provide the advanced functionality of Microsoft Office Outlook, part of the Microsoft Office System.
Although you can use both Outlook and Outlook Express on the same computer, you need to think carefully about how you want to use each program. At work, you might choose to use Outlook for both your corporate and personal accounts. Or, you might want to use Outlook for your work e-mail and Outlook Express exclusively for your personal e-mail. Consider this - if you read a message in Outlook Express, it stays in Outlook Express until you delete it. This means the message wont be there for you when you decide to use Outlook later in the day because you already downloaded it from your e-mail server (to another application). Its probably best not to access the same e-mail account on the same computer using two different applications - the messages on that account then divide between two different e-mail applications on the same computer.
Note If you are using an IMAP e-mail account, your e-mail messages stay on the server so accessing them from both Outlook and Outlook Express should not cause problems. The same is also true for Web-DAV accounts, known as HTTP e-mail accounts, such as MSN Hotmail.
Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011169051033.aspx
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