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Outlook Express is a discontinued email and news client included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it was also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and was available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9. In Windows Vista, Outlook Express was superseded by Windows Mail, then again by Windows Live Mail as separate software. Microsoft Entourage (up to the 2008 edition) and then Microsoft Outlook (in Office 2011), sold as part of Microsoft Office for Macintosh, has replaced the Macintosh version. Outlook Express is a different application from Microsoft Outlook. The two programs do not share a common codebase, but do share a common architectural philosophy. The similar names lead many people to conclude incorrectly that Outlook Express is a stripped-down version of Microsoft Outlook. Outlook Express uses the Windows Address Book to store contact information and integrates tightly with it. On Windows XP, it also integrates with Windows Messenger. ==History== ''Microsoft Internet Mail and News'' is a discontinued email and news client and ancestor of Outlook Express. Version 1.0 was released in 1996 following the Internet Explorer 3 release.〔(Nwnetworks.com The History of Microsoft Internet Explorer )〕 This add-on precedes the ''Internet Mail'' profile for Microsoft Exchange 4.0 bundled in Windows 95. Version 2.0 was released at the end of 1996. In 1997 the program was changed and renamed as ''Outlook Express'' and bundled with Internet Explorer 4. The executable file for Outlook Express, ''msimn.exe'', is a holdover from the Internet Mail and News era. Internet Mail and News handled only plain text and rich text (RTF) email, lacking HTML email. At one point, in a later beta version of Outlook Express 5, Outlook Express contained a sophisticated and adaptive spam filtering system; however this feature was removed shortly before launch. It was speculated on various websites and newsgroups at that time, that the feature was not stable enough for the mass market. Nearly two years later, a similar system, using a similar method of adaptive filtering, appeared as a feature of Microsoft Outlook. Internet Explorer 5 required Outlook Express 5 to save Web Archive files (see MHTML). Outlook Express 6 is the last version to get the same name. It has a similar layout to Outlook Express 5. It was included with Windows XP. In October 2005, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista would exclusively include a new application named Windows Mail, based on large parts of Outlook Express source code.〔(Winsupersite.com, Windows Live Hotmail Review, Part 2 Windows Live Mail and Outlook Connector ) 〕 In November 2007, Microsoft released Windows Live Mail (originally ''Windows Live Mail Desktop''), a mail client for its Hotmail service. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Outlook Express」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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