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I've got a large installation of Office 2007 on my PC. It's obviously old but as an occasional home user it's fine.
The only application I use regularly is Outlook which I use for my .hotmail.com email and for managing my online calendar which then syncs. from Outlook.com to my android phone.
I've just had an email from Microsoft advising that support for Outlook 2007/2010 at Outlook.com is ceasing from August; apparently it's due to an authentication upgrade (I'm not sure if it affects just email or also the calendar service). As always the advice is to upgrade Outlook or sign up for an Office 365 subscription. I don't really want to do either of these (purely on cost), the last time I looked Office 365 wanted a year's subscription up front and the retail version of Outlook via Microsoft Store is £150. I'm never sure of the legality of the cheapskate online license resellers.
So, are there any freeware or affordable email/calendar clients available or am I stuck with the advert driven web interface or Windows 10's rather feeble built in Apps.?
Windows 10? Have you tried the email client that comes with it?
Edit: yes you have!
Try em client
Back when I was making a desperate attempt to reject the relentless march of progress I used Thunderbird, a free email client from Mozilla. These days I'm all 365d up - "resistance is futile".
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/
Does outlook.com not have a web client? Just use that. The only reason I use outlook these days is so I can help other people who use outlook and even then I only fire it up occasionally. I know a couple of people who use it to it's full potential but for most people the web client will work just as well and always be up to date
Outlook.com I don't think has ads. Though I use business accounts on it not the freebies. With a modern browser esp Edge in Windows, you can install it as a Web app in Windows).
The authentication stuff is because they're trying to force everyone off basic auth and they'd prefer to get away from IMAP/POP and SMTP. That leaves email apps that use their own protocols, ie their own apps. Though for free Outlook I don't think they'll kill IMAP/SMTP any time soon (they're disabling it in new business 365 accounts). Should be able to use Thunderbird or similar.
If you're not going to upgrade Office 2007 I'd bin it and use a freebie solution, though they're no match. 2007 is going to be full of vulnerabilities.
ps a 365 sub gets you office plus 1TB of One Drive storage. Personal sub is cheapest, Family let's you share licence across family accounts. Though personal you can install on multiple computers and mobiles for one account.
+1 for thunderbird. I've been using it for 2 web email accounts on the PC for over 15 years, It exports to a new build without a problem and has only broken once.
Thunderbird working fine here, just make sure you have the ports and authe tication settings correct.
Vivaldi browser also has an email client which works well and can be set to prevent tracking.
BlueMail also has a desktop app which is also good for imap.
Web.
I haven't used a fat email client in about twenty years.
The web client is good, just use that. Install an ad blocker and that will remove pretty much every ad.