the root of what's going on right now if I'm not mistaken is that microsoft is turning off webdav access to hotmail. This means that outlook express people cannot access hotmail. They have to use windows live mail if they want to access hotmail accounts. Pop3 accounts, aka gmail, and any other account you configured manually will still work, microsoft is just turning off the old support for hotmail off. Honestly it was a long time comming. It went pay years ago, and that was the death null for me.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:44 AM Subject: Outlook Express being replaced? Or..?
I'm a Windows XP Home Edition w/Service Pack 2 user who relies on OutlookExpress 6 for my email. On this list and also on another of my mailing liststhis morning, there are a lot of messages about email client problems of some sort. The subject lines gave me the impression that give me the impression that Outlook Express is being replaced for all of us, and that the new email client that replaces it is not Jaws accessible and has otherdifficulties or flaws about it, as well. The messages sound really anguishedand furious, and many of them express passionate philosophical viewpoints about the general theme of blind access technology and changes in consumer software and other products and the future of blind access.Intrigued and a little alarmed, I opened more messages in these threads andread more, hoping to find a down to earth reference about just what was happening that had kicked off the thread in the first place.The result is that I think (I hope, perhaps I should say) that the issue hasnothing to do with Outlook Express at all, but rather that Windows Vista users with one of the built-in Vista email clients found some automatic update download had changed their Vista email service for a new version that's not Jaws or Window eyes accessible, and people are trying to figure out what to do to get their earlier, accessible Vista email client back.Is that approximately correct? and if I'm an XP person using OE, this issueisn't related to me, and has nothing to do with OE at all, actually? Or is my OE about to be changed without my consent? Hope someone can see what is puzzling me. Should I be worried? Thanks very much. -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfwIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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