Screenshot of Mail.app’s Windows Vista rival
When Windows Vista is released, the default email program Outlook Express will be rebranded as “Windows Mail”. (You can read in an earlier post how the similarities with Apple Mail, its main competitor in the default OS email client stakes, are more significant than the name alone).
The latest beta of Vista (version 5342) was released on 24 March. Screenshots of the OS 
in general can be found on x64bit.net.
As well as “the glass look” and innovative features like windows that “flip” in 3D, the new beta offers a “sidebar”, into which you can drop things that look like widgets.
A screenshot of Windows Mail from this latest beta has been posted on the German site winfuture.de. Here it is:
Click the picture for a full-sized image
Unfortunately the “About Windows Mail” dialog obscures some of the interface, but I think you can get the general idea of the way in which the new look Outlook Express is developing. Spooky.
It looks a lot better than recent screenshots of the next Outlook at any rate.
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Tags: Apple Mail, email, mail.app, screenshot, sidebar, windows mail, windows vista
March 27th, 2006 at 1:49 am
Erm… That’s Outlook Express, you know. It’s been around for a while, no matter what it’s called now.
March 27th, 2006 at 2:04 am
Sure. I know it well. My mum uses it.
But the make-over of the interface and the feature set in the new “Windows Mail” is interesting.
March 27th, 2006 at 7:54 am
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March 29th, 2006 at 10:48 am
…a little TOO interesting — that’s just blatant. We all know they borrow from either side, but it’s things like this that show a lack not only of innovation, but of creativity in a company.
May 5th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Great ! We are waiting for Vista release. It will be a excellent OS.
June 3rd, 2006 at 1:01 am
How much did they pay you for that, Albert?
October 19th, 2006 at 7:51 am
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