No.
Versions of Outlook Express are specific to Operating systems. You may have a version not suited for your operating system. Outlook Express also gets viruses. Run your anti-virus software. Microsoft tried to correct this by going over to Hotmail. There is also a new version of Outlook Express for Windows 7.
Yes, but there are some differences between the programs. If I remember correctly, Outlook Express has Internet News Reader capabilities while Outlook does not. If you're just using for email, calandar, tasks, etc. you're probably ok.
Outlook provides connection to E-mail servers/services. (these can come from many different providers... from Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo; or corporate services like Microsoft Office365, Exchange servers, Amazon services, Google corporate services, etc...)
You can share them using a site like google picasa oder flickr. You can also use another email client or email encoding option, if outlook express has problems extrecting your photos.
Google Sketch-Up is a Google program that is basically Microsoft Paint in a more complicated way. I would definitely not recommend it.
Because Google Chrome is very over-rated and can't do what the other browsers do. It may come one day....
either activate the spam filter in your mail account (google, or yahoo, or what have you), or download a spamfilter plugin for outlook express (or whatever you use). Google "spam filter".
all you have to do is press settings and you see your email and to see the password you have to check google security and go to pawords you used and there you have it
Microsoft had its own version of DOS (Disk Operation System) which is a command line operating system (well sorta, it bought it originally and improved it) For more information try using a search engine and searching up the history of microsoft. (Try google)
According to Life Hacker, there are a few popular computer calendar applications. These are: Rainlendar, Thunderbird, Google Calendar, iCal, Microsoft Outlook.
Google Mail has a nice calender built into it. If you get a free account you can access the calender from the top of window. It has many features that, I believe, many other programs intended for the use of a calender do not include.
Yep. Google is totally not an independent corporation.