The Chicago Tribune James Coates Computers Column: Outlook Express Won't Send Pics, Talks Gibberish
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By James Coates, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 5--Q. I am having real trouble with sending e-mail using Outlook Express. This error message comes up on my Windows XP Home Edition every time I try to send a .txt or picture file to another e-mail address:  "The host 'smtp' could not be found.
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ET shouldn&#39;t phone home: the message would never get there. He should post a letter instead, say computer experts. They report in Nature magazine that radio messages would literally be a waste of energy.
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SINGAPORE - Bill Gates might not use AOL, but he's definitely got mail. The Microsoft Corp. chairman receives millions of Internet messages a day, said Steve Ballmer, the company's chief executive.
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By Anonymous  BLOGOSPHERE  Plus: Google's fading luster, Bud TV and typo trouble  Microsoft beats Apple at reviewer relations? Blogger James Gaskin recently discussed small-business servers, but left out Apple.
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We have more and more letters to answer. Let&#39;s get right to the mailbag. Q: In a recent column you said that 95 percent of all viruses and spyware are aimed at Internet Explorer, so I decided to do away with IE.
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Deal with Microsoft will allow users to access e-mail without third-party software.
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Everyone has an e-mail address (at least one), but e-mail itself has been declared "broken" by all manner of experts - not just technologists and computer users, but productivity geeks and office managers.   Too many people waste too much time trying to cope with their e- mail inbox.
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Last week, I received an e-mail that read âSteve Jobs, Bono and The Edge invite you to attend a special event.â (Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton were indifferent about my attendance, I guess
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Microsoft has made the decision to use the Word HTML rendering engines for both the reading and composing of messages within Outlook 2007, a decision that has been criticized by those who use HTML e-mail frequently. Now, the company is attempting to perform damage control.
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"What's so funny?" asked a holiday e-card at the top of my Gmail inbox the other day, sent by a friend of mine who writes for "The Daily Show."
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An update to Exchange 2007 released by Microsoft should solve problems that may have prevented e-mail from Exchange Server 2007 from being received by Apple&#39;s iPhone.
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By James Coates, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 11--Last week, Microsoft Corp. marketers and sales reps descended on Chicago to talk up the company's new product and boast about how the Vista operating system's huge "footprint" is about to stomp on Illinois.
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Hotmail users who use Microsoft&#39;s Outlook and Outlook Express clients will now have to pay for the privilege. Users must sign up to either a Hotmail Plus account for $19.
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Alternative e-mail client will compete with Outlook Express and Eudora.
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 4--Here are some quickly warmed-up news leftovers from last week, culled from reports by our staff and wire services.
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DecemberÃ¢ÂÂs Patch Tuesday finds Vista in the bad guysÃ¢ÂÂ sights. Plus: Get Office 2007 SP1, get your fix for Flash, and avoid an HP laptop disaster.
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com. As I write this column, I&#39;m trying to send an important e-mail. I&#39;ve got Microsoft Outlook open in another window. Every once in a while, I Alt-Tab over to that window to see if the little hourglass has gone away.