Outlook Express renamed as Windows Mail

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Outlook Express renamed as Windows Mail

by David Chartier Oct 9th 2005

Bryan Starbuck, the development lead for Outlook Express, has revealed on his blog that the app will be renamed to Windows Mail. As always these days, combating spam is top priority and its received a lot of attention. Thankfully, there are going to be a lot of functionality enhancements too, as there's a new "search as you type" feature, and mail will be indexed as individual messages which will play a lot nicer with searching from outside the app.

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.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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!"

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 :)

Richard said 6:46PM on 10-09-2005

Windows Mail... Apple Mail...

Mail in OS X sure looks a hell of a lot nicer.

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.

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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