Windows Live Mail Desktop
I had finally got hold of a copy of working Windows Live Mail Desktop beta (WLMD). The previous version was somewhat broken, it wouldn’t start even though I had reinstalled it many times. It wasn’t my fault anyway.
According to Wikipedia
WLMD is an upcoming e-mail client from Microsoft’s Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a replacement for Outlook Express on Windows XP, as well as a superset of Windows Mail on Windows Vista… yada yada yada.
In short, WLDM might soon replace your existing copy of Outlook Express and Windows Mail. But it certainly will not kick Outlook out of the Microsoft Office Suite.
One function that makes WLMD standout from the rest of the Microsoft email client is the ability to sync with hotmail. Although Outlook do have such feature too (with the Outlook Connector), you need to pay for such service. With WLMD, you get it for free.
Unlike normal POP3 mailboxes where you download your mails from the server to your desktop, WLMD sync with Hotmail. Such that any modifications you do to your mails in WLMD will be updated to your Hotmail when you synchronize WLMD with Hotmail and vice versa.
If you had been using Outlook Express, Windows Mail or even Hotmail, WLMD wouldn’t be too much of a stranger to you. It has all the basic functions built in, composing new mail, forwarding, replying are all easily accessible thru the toolbar at the top. There is also a search function for you to search for mails, or even files on your desktop.
WLMD is currently in beta and should be out for the public quite soon.
Themocracy
Have you tried this yet?
I use Outlook2007 in Vista but my wife uses Windows Mail. Does this Live work better than Mail?
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I can’t tell you exactly if WLMD is better than Windows Mail as I have never user Windows Mail before. But WLMD is from the same development team as Windows Mail. According to them, WLMD will include features from Outlook Express and Windows Mail, along with new extentions to Live Hotmail , MSN Messenger and Live Space.
Mail seems fine, except calendar and contacts are a seperate app, so when you are in Mail and check the calendar you actually open anther app. It would be good if the Live version has these combined.
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