When I made the switch to Vista, I setup Vista Mail as my newsreader via the
"go" command. The more I read, it sounds as though there's not going to be
any more (or perhaps little) development on Vista mail with the attention
going to Windows Live Mail Desktop which begs the question, if I were to
install Live Mail and set it as my default newsreader, will Outlook
automatically open it rather than Vista Mail?

I realize this probably seems like a question about other applications but
it's not how the others work, just how Outlook opens them for newsreading.

Thanks,
Tim

TS Mathews wrote:

When I made the switch to Vista, I setup Vista Mail as my newsreader
via the "go" command. The more I read, it sounds as though there's
not going to be any more (or perhaps little) development on Vista
mail with the attention going to Windows Live Mail Desktop which begs
the question, if I were to install Live Mail and set it as my default
newsreader, will Outlook automatically open it rather than Vista Mail?

Try it and see.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

On Oct 30, 8:23 am, "TS Mathews" wrote:

I realize this probably seems like a question about other applications but
it's not how the others work, just how Outlook opens them for newsreading.

Outlook doesn't do news.

Outlook Express does, but that's a different group.

"PD43" wrote in message
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On Oct 30, 8:23 am, "TS Mathews" wrote:

I realize this probably seems like a question about other applications
but
it's not how the others work, just how Outlook opens them for
newsreading.

Outlook doesn't do news.

Outlook Express does, but that's a different group.

That should have been clear from my question. Outlook calls the newsreader
(OE in XP and Windows Mail in Vista) via the "go" command menu. My question
was simply can and will Outlook call Windows Live Mail instead?

"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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TS Mathews wrote:

When I made the switch to Vista, I setup Vista Mail as my newsreader
via the "go" command. The more I read, it sounds as though there's
not going to be any more (or perhaps little) development on Vista
mail with the attention going to Windows Live Mail Desktop which begs
the question, if I were to install Live Mail and set it as my default
newsreader, will Outlook automatically open it rather than Vista Mail?

Try it and see.

No, it doesn't BUT I thought it might and one of the Outlook regulars might
know the secret to make it so. I'm wondering if I were able to remove the
"news" entry from the "go" heading and re-accomplish the process it might
work but, never having wanted to remove the feature, I don't know how to do
it nor can I find anything about it.

"TS Mathews" wrote in message
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That should have been clear from my question. Outlook calls the
newsreader (OE in XP and Windows Mail in Vista) via the "go" command menu.
My question was simply can and will Outlook call Windows Live Mail
instead?

Should do - it should call ANY newsreader that's set as the default. If I
set Thunderbird as default newsreader then the Go-News option opens
Thunderbird...(XP and Outlook 2007....)