Another Beta product. May have written about it before when it was called Windows Live Mail desktop.

Anyway theyve tried to improve the interface of it by making it look almost exactly like the Live Messenger beta, and of course trying to make it more stable. However they seem to have a screw loose in this one because it crashes when you use the currently rtm release of messenger, 8.1. I know I know, don't use it right, but i think this is only useful if either a) you only use your computer because its too easy to get into emails or b) your fed up of Internet Explorer opening when you click on "You have 1 message in your inbox" on messenger.

As far as evolving, its well devolved from what it was to what it is now. The most popular feature of it, click "X" and it hides away like messenger does has been removed! All I can say is LOL N00BS to microsoft until they solve that one because that is very very stupid.

Not bad product, still needs a lot of working on, but I'm not switching from Thunderbird cos of it.



Unrelated note: it seems like im turning this into my own version of the inquirer

I have a Hotmale/Live Male account, but I never read my emails as I use it solely for MSN Messenger/Live Messenger (via Pidgin). So this reply was pointless.

Hmm, so Microsoft makes their products not work with each other? Well done to them!

Yea, but its nothing new. Try Office programs, theyre hell to get working if you have different versions of each.

Well that's M$ for you...

How do I upgrade my old hotmail account?

I read that it was possible but when I tried too I got lost. The buttons didn't do what they said. . .

Windows Live Hotmail is slow, has bad junk mail filtering, and should never be classed as a Web 2 application such as Gmail or Y! Mail.

It is rubbish, but there should be an update link on the hotmail page somewhere.

There is, but I couldn't get it to update.

Are you accessing it from http://mail.live.com ?