Windows 7 and live mail

thestoloffs wrote:
Sorry, my friend, but you're a bit overzealous in your complaint of technological senility. (And, I'm only a decade younger than you.)

Guilty!

thestoloffs wrote:
There are serious elements of functionality that the web-based clients omit: For example, the availability of off-line message storage folders to organize message history in hierarchical folders. As RVers are mobile, you can't or don't always want to have to be on-line to the cloud to retrieve message history.

My smartphone has a wi-fi hotspot so the times that I do not have complete access to my email history via Gmail are so few that there is no justification for any offline backup. And with my documents that I keep on Google and Dropbox cloud storage, it is possible to maintain local copies on my devices that I deem important enough to do so.

thestoloffs wrote:
The issue is not that Microsoft is deliberately trying to push everyone to either a web client e-mail that is OS- or hardware-agnostic, or to a paid subscription to Office 360 in order to obtain Outlook 2016 (which, IMHO, is an even more surpassed relic than WLM).

Instead, it's that they're dropping a synch protocol from the "new and improved" Outlook.com, that is the only remaining synch linkage that WLM uses to update Contacts & Calendars. In fact, WLM users can still use open standards -- either POP3 or IMAP -- to synch their Outlook.com mail.

I have never used Outlook or Outlook.com so I am disinterested in these failures. What little experience I have had with them helped to push me away from Microsoft applications.