Communicate using Web-integrated e-mail, messaging, and news

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Microsoft Outlook® Express brings convenient, online communication to your desktop. Whether you want to exchange e-mail with colleagues and friends or join newsgroups to trade ideas and information, Outlook Express makes it easy.

With Outlook Express 5.5, you can:

• Manage multiple e-mail accounts.
• Create multiple identities for different users on the same computer, complete with separate mail folders and address books.
• View your list of online contacts and send instant messages in MSN™ Messenger Service.
• Create mail folders to organize and sort messages, and set up message rules so that incoming mail automatically goes to a specific folder.
• Browse through e-mail messages quickly using the preview pane and message list.
• Use the Address Book to store and retrieve e-mail addresses and contact information.
• Download messages from your MSN Hotmail® account for viewing offline, and synchronize your Hotmail folders and address book with Outlook Express.
• Send and receive secure, encrypted messages.