Criticisms Windows Messaging

because microsoft outlook used same basic windows messaging profile, account , e-mail settings (mapi), ms exchange users not familiar have been led thinking outlook created double profile , made copies of mail while checking see new ms outlook (ver. 97) looked like. way ms exchange users have unknowingly deleted e-mail perceived double , ms outlook did not have front-end feature notify users using same ms exchange or windows messaging account.
in similar fashion, e-mail did not use traditional message formatting, shown same way: actual message content delivered in form of text attachments *.att extension, opened through notepad. these files in turn saved in active temp directory , sensitive e-mail therefore have been made available other users see.
the original version lacked support of internet mail (smtp , pop3). available separate microsoft plus! pack.
html e-mail shown in such way message contained *.att or *.htm attachment, had saved , viewed in browser, ms exchange did not have support html-formatted messages.
international characters unsupported. e-mail sent non-ascii or non-7/8-bit character set shown in form of text attachments, had saved , read in web browser, browser s text encoding set specified code page.