Windows Live Mail Review

Microsoft, by developing user friendly, effective and efficient products holds all the aces. With the release of Windows Live Mail in November 2007, the computer users were provided with a top notch email client from Microsoft. Windows Live Mail is the successor of Outlook Express in Windows 9x to Windows ME and Windows Mail in Vista. It’s quite interesting to use Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail when supported by a single email client. Yes, this email client is equipped with this outstanding multiple email account setup feature. Let’s take a look at brief review of it

Pros:

 

Multiple accounts Compatibility

The compatibility with other e-mail accounts allows you not to only add IMAP, POP and ISP but also configure your favorite accounts like Gmail (Google Mail), Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. This amazing feature allows you to read all your e-mails at one place. One more interesting point is that you can get to your e-mails in the event your computer system is in offline mode. A separate section will be created automatically for each Email Account, whereas their Outbox will remain same. This interesting option is not available even in Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail.

 

Easy to Use Interface

With consisting of great e-mail management features, Windows Live Mail provides a simple and easy to use interface. Its UI is completely different from Outlook express and other e-mail clients. You can change the settings for layout, colors etc.

 

Junk e-mails are Automatically Prohibited

Users do not need to worry about spamming and entry of junk e-mail as the junk e-mail filter scans all the incoming mails and extracts the spam. And the suspicious mails are automatically moved to junk email folder.

 

Send Photos over E-mail

It’s a great fun to share your photos with friends and close ones. I recently used this feature of Windows Live Mail and experienced that the sent photos are of high resolution. While sending the images through e-mail, the photos are converted to thumbnails. The user can add border, text and frames to the individual images.

 

Cons:

 

Lack of Custom Smart Folders

Windows Live Mail doesn’t offer custom smart folders which is an intelligent system.

 

Issues in organizing e-mail

The issue occurs when you organize e-mail using labels and reply with pre- templates.

 

Little Integration between E-mail and Calendar

Windows Live Email doesn’t offer great integration between e-mail and calendar which makes it a little efficient from users’ point of view.

Although there are some of the drawbacks of Windows Live Mail but if you face any other problems, then you can contact third party Windows Live Mail support to take help in order to resolve all these issues in a very little time. Whether the problem is about Windows Live Mail setup, install, uninstall or repair, you’ll surely get proper help from third-party services.

 

Summary

Windows Live Mail boasts great features to its users such as collecting e-mail in a single account, photo sharing, user friendly interface, free of spamming etc. but with having the amazing features it consists of some drawbacks as well that makes it less efficient. But if a user faces some issues in the existing features, he can avail Windows Live Mail support for all Windows Live Mail problems.