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Brief look at two email programs


Outlook and Outlook Express

Outlook Express and Outlook are both email programs that allow you to compose,send and receive e-mails over the Internet. 

Outlook Express is part of the Windows Operating System that is installedon your PC. It will handle the email needs of most PC users. 

Outlook is a component of the Microsoft Office Suite of programsthat includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. 

Beside basic email functions Outlook has the following additional functions: 

  • Calendar - where you can set up reminders that are sent to your inbox at a time and date you specify. 
  • Task Manager - let’s you set up a to-do list of tasks. 
Journal - allows activities to be automaticallyrecorded such as: E-mail messages, Meeting requests, Meeting responses, Taskrequests and Task responses.