Microsoft To Offer Standalone Outlook

The company will offer its Office Outlook as a standalone program for sale, but only in the US for now.

If you own a PC running Vista, when you first used it you probably looked around for Outlook Express, the e-mail client Microsoft has used for several years now. But instead, you only found the new Windows Mail.                     But Outlook, as part of the Office suite of programs, is what most people use at work. They’re familiar with it, and Microsoft believes people will be willing to pay to have it at home. So, according to ZDNet, the company is releasing a standalone version of Outlook Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, for $149.95.   It makes for an interesting experiment, certainly, since many people have already bought Microsoft Office, which includes Outlook, at least in a version that’s ample for most personal use.   So far Microsoft is just looking at the US market; no date or price has been set for a European release of the software.   “The policy is to give the price in the US but not the UK; this pricing has not yet been fixed," a spokesperson told ZDNet.