Internet Mail and News handled only plain text and rich text ( RTF) email, lacking HTML email. Version 2.0 was released at the end of 1996. This add-on precedes the Internet Mail profile for Microsoft Exchange 4.0 bundled in Windows 95. Version 1.0 was released as Microsoft Internet Mail and News in 1996 following the Internet Explorer 3 release. Windows XP, also integrates with Windows Messenger. Outlook Express uses the Windows Address Book to store contact information and integrates tightly with it. The similar names lead many people to conclude incorrectly that Outlook Express is a stripped-down version of Microsoft Outlook. The two programs do not share a common codebase, but they do share a common architectural philosophy. Outlook Express is a different application from Microsoft Outlook. In Windows Vista, Outlook Express was superseded by Windows Mail. As such, it was bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and was available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95, Mac System 7, Mac OS 8, and Mac OS 9. Outlook Express, formerly known as Microsoft Internet Mail and News, is a discontinued email and news client included with Internet Explorer versions 3.0 through 6.0. Windows 3.x- Windows XP/ Windows Server 2003
