Windows Live Mail (formerly named Windows Live Mail Desktop, code-named Elroy[1]) 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. The Windows Live Mail version numbering starts at 12 because this application is an advancement of Outlook Express/Windows Mail, not an entirely new application. Windows Live Mail is developed by the same team that wrote Windows Mail.
The application is available for download via the Windows Live Essentials suite.
History
Version 12
The first version of Windows Live Mail was released on November 6, 2007.
Windows Live Mail has all of the features of Windows Mail. It also adds the following new features:
- Support for Web-based e-mail accounts including Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail/Google Mail, and Yahoo! Mail Plus.
- A different user interface which matches the other Windows Live "Wave 2" applications
- Synchronization with Windows Live Contacts
- Support for RSS feeds. Notable features include the ability to reply directly via email to the author of an item that appears in an RSS feed, and the ability to aggregate multiple feeds into a single folder. The RSS functionality requires Internet Explorer 7.
- Multi-line message lists, as in Outlook
- Emoticons can be used in e-mails and other functions
- In-line spell checking
- Separate inbox folders for different POP accounts
- Improved support for sending picture files in e-mails through the Photo email feature which uploads pictures to a web-based service and sends the URL and thumbnails in the mail. It can also perform basic photo correction and apply different border effects to pictures.
Version 14
A beta version of Windows Live Mail was released in September 2008. It features a new user interface which, in common with the other Windows Live "Wave 3" beta applications released at the same time, has no icons on the toolbar buttons. It also features a new calendaring function. Calendar events automatically synchronise between Windows Live Mail and the Web-based Windows Live Calendar. A "beta refresh" version of Windows Live Mail was released on December 15, 2008, and this version was officially released as the final version on January 8, 2009.
Version 14 still contains the same MIME problem with signed mail[2] that Outlook Express has.
Differences from Windows Mail / Outlook Express
- Ability to view and edit HTML email by source has been removed.
- Scripted stationery is not supported.
- In version 14, toolbar icons are absent.
- Locally installed help documentation is not available.
- The Identities feature is not available.
- Supports using different mailboxes with separate folders (inbox, junk and so on).
- Supports DeltaSync, a proprietary protocol for access to Windows Live Hotmail e-mail accounts.
- Supports the WebDAV HTTP-based protocol (web-based e-mail accounts). Outlook Express supported WebDAV but Windows Mail did not.
- Supports full-text index-based search if Windows Search is installed.
See also
References
External links
- Windows Live Mail
- Microsoft's comparison of Windows Live Mail and Outlook Express
- "More than mail" — Windows Live Mail team blog
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