Microsoft Windows Live Mail review
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Verdict
Streamlined and more secure, with great integration across the Essentials family
Review Date: 22 Oct 2009
Reviewed By: PC Pro
Price when reviewed: Free
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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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