Differences between MS Outlook and Outlook Express:
If MS Outlook & Outlook Express are both email clients, what’s so different or similar about them?
Here is a quick comparison of some of the important features of both these applications:
MS Outlook | MS Outlook Express |
It’s an email client primarily designed for business users. | It’s an email client primarily designed for home users. |
Has emails, personal calendars, group scheduling, task, and contact management. | Has only email and newsgroups functionality. |
Comes with MS Office and MS Exchange Server. | Comes with the Windows Operating System. |
Can be used with SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4,Exchange Server, or any other standards-based communication system that supports MAPI(Messaging Application Programming Interface). Also has full support for voice-mail. | Can be used with SMTP, POP3 &IMAP. |
Based on internet standards and supports important e-mail, news, and directory standards, including LDAP, MHTML, NNTP, MIME, and S/MIME, vCalendar, vCard, iCalendar, and full support for HTML mail. | Supports LDAP (Light Weight Directory Access Protocol), MHTML (Multipurpose HTML), SMIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol). |
Can send and receive emails from multiple email accounts. | Can send and receive emails from multiple email accounts. |
Has enhanced inbox rules functionality for better organization of emails. | Has the functionality to create inbox rules so that emails can be better organized. |
Has workgroup information sharing, workflow communications, group scheduling, public folders, forms when used with MS Exchange server. | Email backgrounds can be customized with backgrounds and graphics. |
Is seamlessly integrated with other MS Office applications. | Includes pre-designed “stationery” for use in special occassions like birthdays, holidays etc. |
Offers easy migration from other e-mail clients, and offers further migration from Microsoft Mail, Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0, Microsoft Schedule+ 7.0, Lotus Organizer, NetManage ECCO, Starfish SideKick, Symantec ACT & synchronization with PDAs(Personal Digital Assistants) like Palm Pilot. |