Next to the Active Desktop, the biggest change in Internet Explorer 4.0 is the addition of the Microsoft Outlook Express client, a mail/news app that far exceeds the capabilities of its predecessors (IE 3.0's Internet Mail and News). Advanced filtering capabilities in both the mail client and the newsreader, a more intuitive user interface, support for multiple user profiles, a newsgroup catch up feature, global address books that allow you to look up names and addresses using Internet white page directories, IMAP and LDAP support, and full inline HTML support for mail and news messages highlight an extremely impressive set of features in Outlook Express.
One of the coolest features is the ability to send a Web page as an e-mail message by simply selecting the "Send Current Document" option from the Mail icon menu. Outlook Express already edges out Netscape Communicator's Messenger and Collabra Discussions tools and even holds its own with the best of the standalone clients currently available. But if Outlook Express doesn't meet all of your needs, IE 4.0 gives you an alternative -- the ability to launch one of several popular standalone mail clients and/or newsreaders from the IE Mail and News icon buttons.
