Vista - Comments

Windows Live Mail seems like most cumbersome production from Microsoft. Wonder what are the advantages that we didn't have in Outlook Express.
Any comments will be highly appreciated.

I've just installed Live Mail, having put up with Windows Mail since January
when I installed Vista.

I'm inclined to agree. It looks "nicer", I suppose. The only noticeable
advantage over OE is the easier visibility of your different email accounts
in the left column. Also there's the new "Live" functionality, and feeds,
neither of which I use.

There are some disadvantages compared with OE. Contacts (the replacement
for the old Address Book) is no longer nicely integrated into the product,
like it was with OE. Also, you can see your newsgroup account, or your
email accounts, but not both together like you can in OE. To switch between
them you've got to go to the bottom of the left pane and click the
appropriate bar.

The header at the top of the preview pane takes up an *enormous* amount of
real estate - entirely unnecessary.

Finally, it doesn't have the facility to automatically remove all messages
from a sender you have blocked in the newsgroups - an incredibly handy
feature of OE. (OK, you can work around that by "resetting" the folder and
then reloading all the messages, but it's clumsy compared with OE).

On the whole I have a slight preference for OE, although it's tough luck for
me as it won't work in Vista.

SteveT

"Steve Thackery" <thack@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:ubXBZogKIHA.1168@xxxxxxJust like in OE, that header can be easily switched off (and in the same place):
View, Layout, Message Header.

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Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

I digitally sign my letters in Windows Live Mail Desktop. This cannot be done
in Windows Mail in Windows Vista.

I agree that it is also possible in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, but I
don't have it.

> Just like in OE, that header can be easily switched off (and in the sameIndeed, yes. I find it quite handy, but I just wish it weren't so enormous!

SteveT

I agree, it could have been made a lot smaller.

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Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


"Steve Thackery" <thack@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23OlwOVhKIHA.4272@xxxxxx

Yes, lets make this a request to reduce the header to 3 lines at most and
eliminate the useless icon. I'd rather not turn it off.

Thanks, Mike - Windows XP Pro SP2 WLM 12.0.1606.1023
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