It's not so bad after all. It is installed on my new business laptop, and is
fairly straightforward and logical to use. Looking at the system
requirements, I imagine it might be cumbersome on lighter systems, but with
a 3.0 ghz processor, 4 gbs of memory and a 250 gb hard drive, it does fine.

(OE is no more, but "Windows Mail" is essentially the same thing--both mail
and news in the same interface, like OE.)