The difference between Outlook and Outlook Express

Outlook Express

Outlook Express is Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, Microsoft Windows 98 operating system, Microsoft wind OWS Millennium Edition (Me) operating system, Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system, and the e-mail client included with the Microsoft Office for the Macintosh. Outlook Express is designed for home users who access their e-mail via dial-up connections to Internet service providers (ISPs).

Outlook Express is based on an open Internet standard and applies to any Internet standard system, such as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), and Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP). It provides the most important email for the present, full support for news and catalog standards, including Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Hypertext Markup Language (MHTML), hyper-text Markup Language (HTML), Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions protocol (S/MIME ) and Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). This full support ensures that you are able to take full advantage of the new technology while delivering and receiving e-mail seamlessly.

New migration tools can automatically import existing mail settings, address book entries, and e-mail messages from Eudora, Netscape, Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows Inbox, and Outlook, making it easy for you to quickly take advantage of Outlook Express offers all the features. It also enables you to manage and organize your e-mail messages by receiving messages from multiple e-mail accounts and by creating inbox rules.

In addition, it fully supports HTML messages, allowing you to personalize your messages with custom backgrounds and graphics. This makes it easy to create unique, powerful, visually-efficient messages.

For special occasions such as birthdays or holidays, Outlook Express also contains stationery designed by Greetings Workshop and Hallmark.

Outlook

Outlook is Microsoft's flagship mail transfer and collaboration client product. It is a stand-alone application that is integrated into Microsoft Office and Exchange Server. Outlook also provides interaction and integration with Internet Explorer 5.5. Full integration of features such as e-mail, calendar, and contact management makes Outlook the perfect client for many business users.

Outlook helps you find and organize information so that you can use Office applications seamlessly. This helps you communicate and share information more effectively.

Powerful Inbox rules allow you to filter and organize e-mail messages. With Outlook, you can integrate and manage e-mail messages, personal calendars and group calendars, contacts, and tasks in multiple e-mail accounts.

When you use Outlook in conjunction with Exchange Server, you can use workgroup information sharing and workflow communications, group scheduling, public folders, forms, and enhanced Internet connectivity.

Outlook applies to the Internet (SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4), Exchange Server, or any other standards-based, Messaging-processing application Interface (MAPI)-enabled communication system, including voice mail. Outlook, based on Internet standards, supports the most important current e-mail, news, and catalog standards, including LDAP, MHTML, NNTP, MIME and S/MIME, VCalendar, VCard, ICalendar, and fully supports HTML mail.

Outlook also provides the same import tool as the Import tool that is included with Outlook Express. This makes it easy to migrate from other e-mail clients and provides Microsoft Mail, Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0, Microsoft Schedule+ 7.0, Lotus Organizer, NetManage Further migration of ECCO, Starfish SideKick, Symantec ACT, and synchronization with leading personal digital assistants (PDA), such as 3Com Palm Pilot.