Windows Messaging
Microsoft Exchange running onWindows 95
Developer	Microsoft
Stable release	4.00.835.1374 (version 5.0) / October 14, 1996
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Email client
License	ProprietaryEULA
Website	Exchange update for Windows 95

Windows Messaging, initially calledMicrosoft Exchange Client, is anemail client that was included withWindows 95 (beginning with OSR2),Windows 98, andWindows NT 4.0.

In Windows 98, it was not installed by default but was available as a separate program in the setup CD. It is incompatible with Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, and later versions.

Microsoft Exchange gained wide usage with the release of Windows 95, as this was the only mail client that came bundled with it. In 1996, it was renamed to Windows Messaging, because of the upcoming release ofMicrosoft Exchange Server, and continued to be included throughout later releases of Windows up until the initial release of Windows 98, which by then included Outlook Express 4.0 as the default mail client.

The Windows Messaging email client had two branches of successors:

• In software bundled with Windows itself, these wereInternet Mail and News in Windows 95 (and bundled withInternet Explorer 3), which was succeeded by Outlook Express 4.0 in Windows 98 (bundled withInternet Explorer 4.0 in Windows 95) and throughout newer Windows systems. These did not use the .pst file type.
• Microsoft Outlook became the professional-grade and more direct successor of MS Exchange Client, which still uses the .pst file type.

Microsoft Fax, also calledMicrosoft at Work Fax (AWF), is the fax component to provide Send-and-Receive Fax capability; sent and received faxes were stored in the same.pst file as other messages, the first attempt ofunified messaging by Microsoft; also the ability to act asfax server,^[1] which is not available in later versions of Windows untilWindows Vista.

• .pst
• Microsoft Internet Mail and News
• Outlook Express
• Windows Mail
• Microsoft Outlook
• Windows 95 toWindows 98
• Windows Fax and Scan

• What is the Microsoft Exchange client?

• Internet Explorer add-ons
• Windows email clients
• Discontinued Windows components
• Windows 95
• Windows 98

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• Short description matches Wikidata