We even had system administrators installing labs of machines from our download servers which had become unsustainable for a community website that is NOT supported by advertising. The simple fact was it was costing us a lot in bandwidth for no return. Unfortunately, due to rampant abuse, HPC:Factor stopped providing public downloads of Internet Explorer in 2009. It can be a problem getting hold of the binaries for some of the older patches. Anyway, using Windows Live Mail seems to work ok - I'm using it with 5 Live Hotmail accounts and a gmail and comcast account with all emails being downloaded.If you have a legacy operating system or Microsoft Office release and are looking to download all of the officially available updates, in their original, unmodified formats. I hope that it has solved the problem with OE that offen deleted a file without any way of geting it back. Also, if you click on 'move to' and try to click in the listing of folders, sometimes it takes more than one click to move the elevator one folder. I have found that it seems to be slower, it does not allow as easy of selection of a folder in the Stored Folders area (you click on a folder, and the list jumps all around, and you have to search for the opened folder again - thus making filing a royal PIA). And, as noted above, it seems to do most of the things OE used to do but with more security. Somewhere along the line, I stumbled on Windows Live Mail. Apparantly they are not mentioning this publicly. MS said that I could BUY OE7, a new standalone version. I tried Thunderbird, but it appears to have the same limitations - not positive - but I think so. And, it is still true that Windows Vista Mail does not support any of the Hotmail type web based email. I found that not to be the case as Outlook still will download Hotmail, but now you have to upgrade to Windows Live Hotmail. They told me, in answer to another question, that Windows Vista (via Windows Vista Mail) no longer supports Hotmail accounts, so it would appear that my 5 Hotmail accounts would have to be dumped or accessed separately. They replied in true MS fashion with a partial answer. I don't have all the answers yet, but do have a few additions to this thread.
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