Windows Live Mail Beta is updated! to M4!

Yes, you hear right. I woke up this morning and logged in my Live Mail Beta (new version of Hotmail), to see that it’s version is updated & the changes were visible. Here is a little of a review by me about it, about the new features in this version. You will find the thumbnails with each feature. Just click it & it will take you to the Screenshot’s bigger version. :-) I LOVED it before too and still love it. Noticed a little speed boost too. Every thing happens fast now. There was a “BUG” in it while replying to e-mails, I had reported it, perhaps others too, it’s not there now :-D. Suggested lots of other things too. I see 2-3 of them resolved in this version. It will be perhaps included in the upcoming updates?

This update is being called “Milestone 4″, “M4″.

Before starting about the new features. I wonder why they have not updated the TODAY page, which they updated with the last version! It’s still same old one :-/

• Finally! It’s showing more e-mails at a time now. They were only a few. Now it’s 50 with a cool scroll bar. The reading pane was not fully functional as well, the e-mail would not come whole and there was no scroll bar for it, to move around in the e-mail. Now that’s present too.

• In the older version, this option was there but not highlighted. When an e-mail is received from an un-known sender and is not reliable then it shows a bar and you click WHY, it tells you the reason for why it’s not being shown. According to Microsoft Team working on Windows Live Beta, the e-mail sent to you will pass through 8 checks, deciding about the nature of e-mail. If it’s safe or un-safe. It will even tell you if the e-mail is “Phishing” one, the one which will fool you off your money and personal details ;-).

• Print the e-mail button appears now.

• The reading pane can be switched on/off as the user desires. The panes can be resized now by just dragging them.

• Right click on Junk e-mail folder or the recycle bin and “Empty folder” appears. You click OK for it and it’s done.

• You start typing the person’s name whom you want to e-mail and it will get you with a LIVE list of matches from your Contacts list. It’s just cool!

• Spell check…You heard right! You type a message and it will under line the spell mistakes for you :-). You right click to either select a correct one or Add it to Dictionary. :-) & It’s LIVE, without any piece of software to download!

• It was only accessible through Internet Explorer, now other Browser support is added too. I only checked with Firefox. It’s working but lots of features are missing. One can only Compose and Read all the e-mails, the advanced functions are missing, like the reading pane etc. It shows you plain version.

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