Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail is an email program intended to be the successor for Outlook Express on XP and Windows Mail on Vista. Windows Live Mail has all the features Windows Mail had, plus the following new features:

• Support for other web-based email packages, including Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail (Google Mail), and Yahoo! Mail Plus.
• A user interface that looks like the other Windows Live applications.
  Windows Live Mail lets you send and receive email the way you did under other email providers, but with new features.
• Synchronization with Windows Live Contacts.
• Support for RSS feeds. This includes the capability to reply directly via email to the author of an item that appears in an RSS feed and the capability to aggregate multiple feeds into a single folder. The RSS functionality requires at least Internet Explorer 7.
• Multiline message lists, the way they worked in Outlook.
• The capability to include emoticons (such as smileys or winks) in emails and other functions.
• Spell checking while creating messages.
• Separate inbox folders for different POP accounts.
• Better support for sending picture files in emails, including basic photo correction and application of different border effects to pictures.

Windows Live Mail also features a new calendaring function. Calendar events are automatically synchronized between Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Calendar.