Editing Outlook Express (section)

==History==
[[File:Microsoft Internet Mail and News screenshot.png|thumb|right|Microsoft Internet Mail and News]]
Version 1.0 was released as ''Microsoft Internet Mail and News'' in 1996 following the [[Internet Explorer 3]] release.<ref name="History">{{cite web|author1=Scott Schnoll|title=The History of Internet Explorer|url=http://www.nwnetworks.com/iehistory.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816052247/http://www.nwnetworks.com/iehistory.htm|archive-date=16 August 2011}}</ref> This add-on precedes the ''Internet Mail'' profile for [[Microsoft Exchange Server|Microsoft Exchange]] 4.0 bundled in [[Windows 95]]. Version 2.0 was released at the end of 1996. Internet Mail and News handled only [[plain text]] and rich text ([[Rich Text Format|RTF]]) email, lacking [[HTML email]].

In 1997 the program was changed and renamed to ''Outlook Express'' and bundled with [[Internet Explorer 4]]. The Windows executable file for Outlook Express, ''msimn.exe'', is a holdover from the Internet Mail and News era. Like Internet Explorer, Outlook Express 4 can run on Mac System 7, OS 8, and OS 9.

[[Internet Explorer 5]] required Outlook Express 5 to save Web Archive files (see [[MHTML]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221787 |title=New Features in Internet Explorer 5 |website=Support |publisher=Microsoft |date=November 14, 2003 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041102082445/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221787 |archive-date=November 2, 2004}}</ref>

Outlook Express 6 is the last version of the software with Outlook branding. It has a similar layout to Outlook Express 5. It was included with Windows XP.