Bob, There is a 2011 version of Windows Live. It is usually what you get when you download it if you have Windows Vista or Windows 7. If you have Windows XP, you can't use Windows Live Mail 2011, and they still have 2010 available specifically for Windows XP. You can tell which you have by noting what kinds of menus you have. If you have normal menus, you have the 2010 version. If you have ribbon style menus, you have 2011. If you are using 2010 under Windows 7 or Vista, you will likely be prompted to upgrade. Whether or not you should upgrade is hard to say. Windows Live Mail 2011 is functionally the same but is different on the surface and uses some different mechanisms to write text. Most of us are probably assuming that you were already using 2011, and if that is not the case some of our advice might be off target. I still have both installed because I use it on one XP machine and on another Windows 7 machine, but as I have said before, I use it specifically for only certain e-mail so I don't know the program inside out. It is difficult to say which actually works better with Window-Eyes. Once you get everything set up, both work, in my experience, but each has different oddities, for lack of a better term.
E-mail is something I do a lot of so what I want is something stable and solid, kind of like what I want in my screen reader. In this case, basic doesn't mean I don't want features, I just want it to do the basics well. I have not been impressed enough by Thunderbird to really embrace it, and I am still using my 12-year-old PMMail for most e-mail. I am using Becky quite a bit now, though. Becky is not free, though, but it is cheap. Having said that, I think that since you are already using Windows Live Mail, I'd take it as far as you can and see if it meets your needs. I think you are better off using one program a lot to really get to know it. If at some point you decide it just isn't working well enough for you then you can switch. It is hard to judge software, in my opinion, if you are constantly going back and forth and never knowing any of them well unless you have a particular strength in that area. However, if you are not sure, I am glad to answer questions as to why I like Becky E-mail, and others will be glad to tell you why they like Thunderbird. One of my gripes about Thunderbird is that it seems to me they are changing it too much. Yes, you can pick a version and stick with it, but it seems to me that there is always some bug or another that is fixed by another version but that seems to have its own bugs. Of course, this is somewhat true of all software, and I will doubtlessly look at Thunderbird again at some point. I would be curious to hear more from others what makes Thunderbird stand out for them other than that it is free. Good luck. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:21:23 -0700, Robert Ringwald wrote: >Is there a WLM 2011? >--Bob Ringwald >From: Russ Kiehne >Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 7:09 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: WLM & WE >I've had very good luck with using WLM 2011 with WE 7.5.3. I've been using >it since I got this computer last year. >-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Ringwald >Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:02 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: WLM & WE >Russ, >WLM does not work for crap with WE. IGve been fighting it for a week here on >my new Windows 7 Dell laptop. >Juan Gonzolez said WLM works great with NVDA. IGve never used that screen >reader, but I am going to try it. >--Bob >K6YBV >P.S. Are you on the air? >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. >If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to >GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage >your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. >If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to >GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage >your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
