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Now to steal a line from Rod… the stakes just jumped up.

I started using Windows Live Mail Desktop today… think Outlook express on steroids.

Now so what you might be thinking… Gmail has had 2gb mail accounts for ages and Thunderbird has great search and filtering.

Well Live Mail Desktop has all those things as well as the ability to add support for multiple email accounts POP3, IMAP, HTTP (hotmail, gmail, AOL etc). But IMO that is not what makes it compelling. What makes it compelling is its tight integration with the new live messenger, msn spaces and the new underlying RSS platform in windows!

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After installing Live Mail Desktop, it search my live messenger contact list and added my contacts msn spaces feeds to my underlying rss platform (same place that is linked to 2007 Outlook and IE7)… I was surprised when these feeds automatically appeared most of these pages were ones I had never visited… see below.

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Oh yeah and the loud advertising that Tim complained about has been replaced by Active Search interesting...

One thing I have discovered recently is there is nothing more annoying than spammers fudging the from field in an email to appear like it comes from your email address a combination of the new SenderID technology and great junk mail filtering just make this problem go away in live mail.

Anyway don’t take my word for it... sign up as a beta tester at https://ideas.live.com. Check out the Windows Live Mail Desktop blog and watch this podcast on channel 9.

Remember you can leverage the RSS platform in your applications moving forward... watch the video here.

This blog post was published using Microsoft Word 2007.

Tags: Windows Live Mail Desktop, RSS, Windows Live, Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Windows Vista

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2006
    Hmmm. The Singup link just goes to the ideas.live.com main page, and from there the Live Mail Desktop link is just a request for your email to be notified in the future. Not a signup really.
  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2006
    Yeah unfortunately this is still a "closed" beta... I followed the same process to get on... I put my hotmail address in there a week ago and got the invite email yesterday... so I'm thinking people that do the same might get the same sort of turn around. Incidently I also put my email down for the google spreadsheet beta and have heard nothing yet on that one.