> Can I just say I hate win2000!

Join the club.

> Ok, so how can I make Outlook Express my default MAPI client?  Did they
> remove this feature?  It's like they did this to force use of Outlook or
> something.

After all those years of telling people to use MAPI, and how great MAPI
was, and how easy it was going to be to use MAPI in your programs for
e-mail access, and how every version of Windows was going to provide
MAPI so your program would work on every version of Windows..., Microsoft 
for some reason REMOVED the MAPI interface from Windows 2000.

The nice thing about being locked into one vendor, who has a monopoly
on the market, is that they can make changes like that and there is
NOTHING YOU CAN DO.

Oh, did you want MAPI on Windows 2000?  That will be an extra $550.00
for a copy of Office 2000, which provides a MAPI interface when you
install Outlook.  Naturally Outlook Express does not provide MAPI, so if
you want MAPI because you have some important program that uses it, you
have to install Outlook 2000 to get your MAPI back on Windows 2000.

This entire episode just reinforces my longstanding claim that Microsoft
makes technology decisions which benefit ONLY Microsoft's shareholders,
and their decisions are NEVER made to benefit their customers.  When
Microsoft sits around making some product or technology decision, they
are not looking out for the best interests of their customers; they
are solely looking out for the best interest of the shareholders.

This is not the kind of company you can do business with in a sustain-
able long-term relationship, as most of the subscribers on this list
already know.

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