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Windows email clients compared

Tim Gaden — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:18:59 +0000

This post will appeal to Mail users who keep an eye on the wider picture or who live partly in a Windows world.

As Microsoft revs itself up to deliver Windows Vista sometime next year, it is working on the next generation of email clients for the new OS, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail Desktop.

Bryan Starbuck , the development lead for Windows email clients, has posted a feature list of the two apps:

Windows Mail, which Hawk Wings has already covered , is the new name for Outlook Express. It is the default client in Windows Vista, Apple Mail’s most direct “competitor”.

You can read more about it on Microsoft’s Vista preview site or watch a 46 min video demo.

Windows Live Mail Desktop is a more ambiguous project. It aims to broaden the scope of “the email experience” by integrating RSS feeds and web searches into its interface.

The RSS feed feature sounds clever. It will allow you to forward or email your thoughts about a particular blog post to the author as you read it. Search-as-you-type promises to locate information quickly.

Active Search will be great, Bryan says :

Active Search bridges the gap between your inbox and the broader web using the power of search. Using Active Search is essentially the same as conducting a ton of related searches the old fashioned way â€“ by cutting and pasting terms from your email into a separate web browser â€“ only without all the effort.

Screenshots of the next Outlook beta speak for themselves .outlook, windows, vista, email, windows mail, windows live mail desktop, RSS feeds, searching Similar Posts:

Screenshot of Mail.app’s Windows Vista rival

Tim Gaden — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:14:16 +0000

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.windows vista, windows mail, apple mail, mail.app, email, screenshot, sidebarSimilar Posts:

Outlook Express to become “Windows Mail”

Tim Gaden — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:12:57 +0000

In the next version of Windows, known as “Vista”, Outlook Express is set to become “Windows Mail”.

It will feature advanced spam-handling abilities and better search capabilities with a “search as you type” function. Windows Mail will also have a new way of storing emails as individual files and a new database for indexing them, which will make searching emails outside Windows Mail itself easier. Sounds just like the sort of things one would want in an email client!

Microsoft has released a 46 minute video about Windows Mail. You can watch it here (and read about it on the blog of the development team head, Bryan Starbuck).

(Thanks, DownloadSquad ).windows vista, outlook express, windows mail, emailSimilar Posts: