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Outlook Express renamed as Windows Mail

I found a 45 minute interview with Bryan at Channel 9 on some of the intricacies of Windows Mail, and check out Bryan's blog at MSN Spaces for yet more info on Windows Mail getting all growed up.
[via Hawk Wings]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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J.T. Mill said 5:48AM on 10-10-2005
The name switch makes sense to me. 'Outlook' doesn't say much about the name of a product, yet Mail makes perfect sense. Only thing I'm curious about is if Mac OS's similarly named program had anything to do with it.
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Mike Whalen said 5:31PM on 10-09-2005
Ummm... What's with the "Checkin Mail?" Is that the name of a folder? Is MS trying to get hip? "Yo, bitch, we be checkin' de mail up in dis hizzouse!"
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Martin Dean said 5:45PM on 10-09-2005
I don't think I would ever go back to OE no matter what they decide to call it.
I have lost too much email by relying on it. I'm no gmail now and very happy :)
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Richard said 6:46PM on 10-09-2005
Windows Mail... Apple Mail...
Mail in OS X sure looks a hell of a lot nicer.
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Paul Thrasher said 5:34PM on 10-10-2005
RE: #2
That's from an email. It's a checking account with 1 letter missing.
But how 'bout those scrollbars? Ew!
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