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Windows Live Hotmail - AKA Windows Live Mail

I live in Outlook and so most of my email experiences are not web-based. However, I have Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Windows Live Hotmail accounts that I use for different reasons here and there. I think all of them are very good.

Gmail seems the most feature-complete...offering POP access and even allowing you to specify an alternate email address that appears as your "Sent From" address. This is helpful when you need to use Gmail in a pinch, but want it to appear as though it came from your work account. It's not perfect since in Outlook it says, from XXX@gmail.com sent on behalf of youremail@companyname.com. Still, better than Yahoo! Mail and Live Mail.

Yahoo! Mail has a very nice UI, but I've found it a bit slow. Recently Omar Shanine mentioned that Windows Live Hotmail just released the newest beta code. I've been testing it out and it is VERY quick. Much more responsive than it has been. My guess is that a lot of the beta code has been optimized and perhaps some debug modules have been turned off. If you haven't tried it out, then do so.

The UI is also much nicer and richer than it was with earlier milestones. I think I still prefer the Yahoo! Mail look-and-feel, but Hotmail's is very nice too and the use of check-boxes as you hover over mail-messages is slick. Give it a shot.

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posted by John Walker @ 4/14/2007 2:43:00 AM

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