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  Name Windows Live Mail
  Caption Screenshot of Windows Live Mail on Windows XP
  Developer Microsoft
  Latest Preview Version 1201365
  Latest Preview Date September 5 , 2007
  Operating System Microsoft Windows
  Genre E-mail Client
  License Freeware
  Website Official site


Windows Live Mail (formerly named '''Windows Live Mail Desktop''') 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 and Windows Mail on Windows Vista . It has been indicated that it will contain a superset of Windows Mail's features, and provide integration with Windows Live Hotmail . LiveSide - Windows Live Hotmail launches; Windows Live Mail to succeed Outlook Express and Windows Mail


OVERVIEW

Windows Live Mail is being developed by the same team that wrote Windows Mail. According to a March 3 2006 blog post from a Microsoft employee,See Where did we come from? Where are we going? it will contain all the new features in Windows Mail, and add to that the following:
  • Similar visual style to the Windows Live theme

  • Synchronization with Windows Live Contacts

  • Support for RSS feeds, which requires and uses Internet Explorer 7 's RSS capabilities, including the ability to reply directly via email to the author of an item that appears in an RSS feed, as well as multiple feed aggregation into a single folder

  • Multi-line message lists, as in Outlook

  • The usage of Emoticon s in e-mails and other functions

  • In-line spell checking

  • Separate inbox folders for different POP accounts

  • Better picture/photo messaging (PhotoMail)


A public beta version of Windows Live Mail has been released to the US, UK, India, France, Japan, Germany, China and Spain.


LATEST BUILD

The current public beta build of the software is 12.0.1365. Changes from previous build include: Windows Live Mail official team blog: Get the NEW Windows Live Mail Beta 2 Download
  • New Windows Live Installer setup and migration

  • List View for Contacts

  • Additional options for importing and exporting Contacts

  • Customizable toolbar

  • New options for Quick Views

  • Improved Layout Options dialog

  • Change Sign-in Windows Live ID directly from the upper-right hand corner area

  • Updates to Photo E-mail feature

  • Updates to Newsgroup feature

  • Sound notification for new e-mails received

  • Improvements and bug fixes



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