Windows Live Mail

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Windows Live Mail
Screenshot of Windows Live Mail on Windows XP.
Developed by	Microsoft
Latest release	2008 (Build 12.0.1606) / November 6, 2007
OS	Microsoft Windows
Genre	E-mail client
License	Proprietary freeware
Website	Windows Live Mail Homepage

Windows Live Mail (formerly named Windows Live Mail Desktop) is an e-mail client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista. It contains a superset of Windows Mail's features, and provides integration with Windows Live Hotmail.^[1]

[edit] Overview

Windows Live Mail is developed by the same team that wrote Windows Mail. According to a March 3, 2006 blog post from a Microsoft employee,^[2] it would 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 Emoticons in e-mails and other functions
• In-line spell checking
• Separate inbox folders for different POP accounts
• Better picture/photo messaging (PhotoMail)

The final version of Windows Live Mail was released on November 6, 2007. It can be installed using Windows Live Installer.

[edit] See also

• Windows Mail
• Outlook Express
• Windows Live
• Windows Live Hotmail

[edit] References

1. ^ LiveSide - Windows Live Hotmail launches; Windows Live Mail to succeed Outlook Express and Windows Mail
2. ^ See Where did we come from? Where are we going?

[edit] External links

• Windows Live Mail
• "More than mail" — Windows Live Mail team blog