Windows Vista® Inside Out Deluxe Edition

Mail and Collaboration

With all editions of Windows Vista, you get a collection of contact tools that work reasonably well together. The one you’re most likely to use is Windows Mail, the successor to Outlook Express. Don’t let the name fool you—Windows Mail also works with Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) newsgroups.

Clicking Windows Calendar from the Accessories group on the All Programs menu opens a bare-bones appointment and to-do list manager. Clicking Windows Contacts opens the Contacts folder, where information about individual contacts is stored in individual files that can be opened and edited in a small viewer program. The Contacts folder serves as the Address Book for Windows Mail and Windows Calendar, but you can use it with other ...