E-mail programs have become the most popular Internet applications in the world. They, and newsreaders that send and receive newsgroup messages, are the two most common means of communicating over the Internet. Outlook Express, which ships with the Internet Explorer 4.0 Platform Preview, contains both e-mail and newsreaders, and opens the door to a whole new level of electronic communication.

For example...

Imagine you stumble across a great page like this one and can't wait to share it with a friend. With other mail and news programs, you could only send a link. With Outlook Express, you can send the entire page!

Just open the page in Internet Explorer, click Mail on the toolbar and select "Send Current Document." Bingo, Outlook Express drops the entire page into a mail message and waits for an address to send it to.

Click the address card icon next to the To: line, and you're on your way. Can't find the address in your personal addressbook? Click Find and Outlook Express opens the door to millions of addresses in the Internet whitepages! Once you've found the right person/address, click OK and the Send icon, and the page is on it's way!

Outlook Express includes:

• Full HTML support, so you can send e-mail messages that include graphics, text, animation, and even multimedia files.
• Offline reading and composing, which lets you read and write e-mail or newsgroup messages without worrying about connection times.
• Global address books, which let you look up names and addresses locally, from other address books, or from any Internet white pages directory.
• Find Message, which lets you find messages—either news or mail—quickly and easily.
• Tight integration with Internet Explorer, so e-mail and newsgroup messages are just a mouse-click away.

Want to know more? Check out Outlook Express Frequently Asked Questions.