Live Mail Desktop
22nd Jun 2006, 07:54 GMT
Now to steal a line from Rod… the stakes just jumped up. I started using Windows Live Mail Desktop today… think Outlook express on steroids. Now so what you might be thinking… Gmail has had 2gb mail accounts for ages and Thunderbird has great search and filtering. Well Live Mail Desktop has all those things as well as the ability to add support for multiple email accounts POP3, IMAP, HTTP (hotmail, gmail, AOL etc). But IMO that is not what makes it compelling. What makes it compelling is its tight integration with the new live messenger, msn spaces and the new underlying RSS platform in windows! After installing Live Mail Desktop, it search my live messenger contact list and added my contacts msn spaces feeds to my underlying rss platform (same place that is linked to 2007 Outlook and IE7)… I was surprised when these feeds automatically appeared most of these pages were ones I had never visited… see below. Oh yeah and the loud advertising that Tim complained about has been replaced by Active Search interesting... One thing I have discovered recently is there is nothing more annoying than spammers fudging the from field in an email to appear like it comes from your email address a combination of the new SenderID technology and great junk mail filtering just make this problem go away in live mail. Anyway don’t take my word for it... sign up as a beta tester at http://ideas.live.com. Check out the Windows Live Mail Desktop blog and watch this podcast on channel 9. Remember you can leverage the RSS platform in your applications moving forward... watch the video here. This blog post was published using Microsoft Word 2007. Tags: Windows Live Mail Desktop , RSS , Windows Live , Windows Mail , Outlook Express , Windows Vista This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights .
Live Mail Desktop related news:
- マイクロソフト、Windows Liveで「Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta」を準備中 — CNET Japan
- A New Xandros Desktop — Technology News Daily - Linux
- Xandros Desktop 4 Screenshot Tour — NewsForge: NewsVac
- Tame your users' Exchange mailboxes with desktop search tools — TechRepublic.com
- SoonR for Mac coming soon — jkOnTheRun
- Can Gates Keep Departure On Schedule? — Desktop Pipeline Blog
- Google GMail versus Yahoo Mail beta — Artima Developer Buzz
- Microsoft Is Thinking Way Inside The Box — Desktop Pipeline Blog
- Distribution Release: Xandros Desktop 4 — DistroWatch.com News
- InfoWorld: Novell hits a desktop home run with SLED 10 — digg / linux/unix