Outlook Express
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Just saw that Outlook Express was being removed from Win 10 in the 21H1 update[^]. Brought back fond memories of my early days configuring the POP3 and SMTP servers even though I had no clue what I was doing. :laugh:
Good grief, I thought that had been vaped long ago.
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Good grief, I thought that had been vaped long ago.
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Just saw that Outlook Express was being removed from Win 10 in the 21H1 update[^]. Brought back fond memories of my early days configuring the POP3 and SMTP servers even though I had no clue what I was doing. :laugh:
Ah, fond memories indeed. I collect vintage computers. My most recent acquisition is a RadioShack TRS-80 MC-10[^]. I also have a collection of old operating systems in virtual machines. I can go back and boot one of those things up and remember how much simpler it was.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid." Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn. Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning. Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
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Good grief, I thought that had been vaped long ago.
Me too! In 2001 I wrote (in VB5, later VB6, and VB.Net) a DLL component that could read and extract the folder/message structure of Outlook Express .DBX files. Virtually nothing else did that, and none as a programmable component. Sold as shareware for about 10 years, but haven't sold a copy in a long while. Maybe if Win10 support is finally ending I'll get some takers! :laugh:
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Ah, fond memories indeed. I collect vintage computers. My most recent acquisition is a RadioShack TRS-80 MC-10[^]. I also have a collection of old operating systems in virtual machines. I can go back and boot one of those things up and remember how much simpler it was.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid." Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn. Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning. Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
Memories, like the corners of my mind.... The first computer I ever programmed was a TRS-80. Good times.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Memories, like the corners of my mind.... The first computer I ever programmed was a TRS-80. Good times.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I still have a fully functional TRS-80 Model 100.
Software Zen:
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Just saw that Outlook Express was being removed from Win 10 in the 21H1 update[^]. Brought back fond memories of my early days configuring the POP3 and SMTP servers even though I had no clue what I was doing. :laugh:
milo-xml wrote:
Outlook Express was being removed from Win 10 in the 21H1 update[^].
I'm not sure exactly what that means, given that OE isn't bundled with the OS. Are they claiming that if you *do* have it installed (which means a user has gone out of his way to find the installer and set it up), it'll be deliberately removed?? [Edit] Ok, I've read the page...and it's not claiming anything re: OE specifically with 21H1; the page simply lists "features and functionality removed in Windows 10" - across all versions. In light of that...the last column on that page ("Removed in version") says 1709...so...maybe OE *was* bundled at some point (I don't remember that far), but was actually removed 3+ years ago? If you're only finding that out now, then it sounds like having it removed for the last 3 years hasn't really been a problem then...
