Living the Vista life without Outlook
Vista is an amazing operating system, from its vastly improved interface to the amount of things you can get done just from the base install. Without installing any third party applications it is possible to edit photos, create and edit movies and organize your entire music collection. It even includes an email client.
In addition to the email client you also get both a contact manager and calendar. Windows Mail is the default email client within Vista, if you like Windows Mail (and why wouldn’t you, okay, there is a reason but that’s for later) you wouldn’t even need to install Outlook.
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