Microsoft Windows Live Mail
in Software
Verdict
Streamlined and more secure, with great integration across the Essentials family
Review Date: 11 Mar 2010
Price when reviewed: £0 (£0 inc VAT)
Overall Rating

Windows Vista’s Mail, Calendar, Photo Gallery and Movie Maker are missing from Windows 7, but there’s no need to panic. They’re all available – new and improved – as a separate download.
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Read our comprehensive overall review of the whole Windows 7 familyWindows Live Mail has been considerably streamlined since its Vista incarnation: not only can you now sign up to email services such as Gmail without having to enter server addresses, but the whole app looks far more attractive.
A Quick Views mode lets you filter email using predefined criteria, such as "Unread email" and "Unread from contacts". And it’s more secure than before, with phishing alerts built in as an extra line of defence.
Microsoft has also gone back on its decision in Vista to split Mail and Calendar. Both launch in the same window, and there’s more integration: you can now add emails to appointments with a single click, and the "Add contact" option is more obvious.
The Contacts application still launches in a separate window, but it benefits from better integration too, and is now linked directly to your Windows Live contacts. Anyone you add here will be available to Messenger – and vice versa – as well as to Windows Live webmail and Windows Mobile users.
Author: PC Pro
Windows Live Mail - a huge step backwards
Your review a bit simple minded I'm afraid. Have you used it at all? You try copying an address into MS Word - or indeed any word processor. Likewise you try mail merging. Outlook Express is far superior. Neither can you copy and paste a folder into a second .wab file as you can with OE in order to create a merge file for a subset of your addresses. Even the old and quite good Windows Address Book mail merge with MS Works no longer "works" with WLM. I have found WLM dire - heaven help us if this is the end result of 15 years of web email. Perhaps MS only want even home users to use Outlook.
By palepete on 29 Dec 2009 
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