Windows Mail is indeed better than OE

Submitted by Marcus_Soperus on Tue, 2008-02-19 09:31

Windows Mail is the standard email client in Vista. Although it looks similar to Outlook Express, it has several improvements, including better spam filtering, phishing protection, and - most importantly - it stores each email message as a separate file, rather than storing messages in the Inbox and other folders as large database files that often become corrupt.
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It's amazing how illogical a business built on binary logic can be.

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Windows Mail?

Submitted by Shalbatana on Tue, 2008-02-19 08:07

Does this mean someone FINALLY put a stake in Outlook Express???!!! [perhaps there's a reason to get Vista after all] Or is WM just a new name for it?

Please let it be the former.

(It's one thing to make a horribly useless program, it's another to make it install in your OS by default, and make other somewhat more useful programs rely on it's presence.)

There's no time like the future.

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KB943899?

Submitted by Link2Ib on Mon, 2008-02-18 23:40

I'm assuming this wasn't part of the patch tuesday set, and it's probably part of SP1 but I'll install it now because the main problem I have with Vista (really the only problem that is Vista's fault) is the slow I/O, although it seems to me that smaller files have bigger problems transferring. When I tried to send a folder full of small files to my USB drive (although this one is kind of slow) it was taking 10 minutes, and after zipping it and copying it over it took less than 5 seconds. Granted, the file size was smaller but not 600 times smaller.

Edit: This actually was in patch tuesday, it turns out I've already got it.

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