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Windows Live Mail Desktop now in public beta

Windows Live Mail Desktop
Windows Live Mail Desktop, Microsoft's new e-mail client that aims to unify all your email-including AOL and Gmail-in one app, is now in public beta. In what will be sure to confuse some users, Windows Live Mail Desktop is a different product from Windows Mail, Outlook's successor, and Windows Live Mail, the successor to Hotmail. Its advertised features include:
  • Speedy access to multiple e-mail accounts in one place
  • The power of desktop software with the flexibility of Web-based e-mail
  • A way to get your newsgroups and RSS feeds as easily as you get e-mail
  • The ability to compose, delete, and organize e-mail even when you're offline
  • A massive 2GB of online inbox storage
  • Address AutoComplete and other handy features to let you speed through your e-mail like never before
  • The power to instantly add an MSN Spaces blog entry about any message
  • Keep in touch with your MSN Messenger contacts right from inside the program
  • Easy creation and editing of photo e-mails
You can download the beta from the IE-only Windows Live Ideas site, but you'll need a Passport or Hotmail account to get it, and right now the download site seems to be having a few troubles (insert where-are-the-WLMDs joke here) . More details can be found at the official Windows Live Mail Desktop blog.

[Via Neowin.net]

Filed under: Windows, E-mail, Google, Microsoft

Windows Live Mail Desktop to include contextual ads

Windows Live Mail Desktop

Windows Live Mail Desktop, the confusingly-named Microsoft app that will let you access e-mail from multiple sources including Hotmail, Gmail, and AOL, is getting contextual (targeted) advertising, according to ClickZ. The program, which is still in closed beta, utilizes integration with Microsoft's Active Search to display ads based on the content of your e-mail messages, much like similar ad model in Gmail that caused (and continues to cause) some controversey. Unlike in Gmail, Active Search actually displays search results from Windows Live Search relevant to the message you're reading, the top two of which are sponsored links. Privacy implications aside (I give Google the benefit of the doubt--I'm willing to do the same for Microsoft on a trial basis), having targeted search results next to my e-mails sounds useless to me, but maybe some users will disagree. You can turn off Active Search and the ads are replaced by standard non-targeted display ads, but I'm not sure which would be less obnoxious. For more about the feature, head over to the Windows Live Mail Desktop official blog.

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