Windows Stay Mail
Windows Stay Mail 2011 Developer(s)
Microsoft Secure release
2011 (Develop 15.four.3508.1109) (December 1, 2010; 3 months ago (2010-12-01)) Operating system
Windows Vista,
Windows 7 Type
E-mail client
News client
Feed reader
Electronic calendar License
Proprietary freeware Website
Windows Live Mail (formerly named Windows Stay Mail Desktop,
Windows 7 Product Key, code-named Elroy[1]) is a free of charge e-mail client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista. The Windows Stay Mail version numbering starts at 12 because this application is an advancement of Outlook Express/Windows Mail, not an entirely new application. Windows Live Mail is developed by the same team that wrote Windows Mail.
The application is available for download via the Windows Reside Essentials suite.
1 History 1.1 Windows Mail / Outlook Express
1.2 Version 12 (Wave 2)
1.3 Version 2009 (Wave 3)
1.four Version 2011 (Wave four) 2 See also
3 References
four External links [edit] History
[edit] Windows Mail / Outlook Express
While Windows Reside Mail is the successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista, there were several differences in functionality between Windows Dwell Mail and Windows Mail / Outlook Express when it was released in 2007. These include:
Ability to view and edit HTML email by source has been removed in Windows Reside Mail
Scripted stationery is not supported in Windows Live Mail
Locally installed help documentation is not available for Windows Dwell Mail
The Identities feature is not available in Windows Live Mail
Support for using different mailboxes with separate folders (inbox, junk and so on) added in Windows Reside Mail
Support for DeltaSync, a proprietary protocol for access to Windows Stay Hotmail e-mail accounts,
Office 2010 Activation, was added in Windows Live Mail
Support for WebDAV HTTP-based protocol (web-based e-mail accounts) was added in Windows Reside Mail (compared to Windows Mail only)
Ability to perform full-text index-based search in Windows Dwell Mail if Windows Search is installed [edit] Version 12 (Wave 2)
The first version of Windows Stay Mail was released on November 6, 2007.
Windows Live Mail has all of the features of Windows Mail. It also adds the following new features:
Support for Web-based e-mail accounts including Windows Reside Hotmail, Gmail (Google Mail), and Yahoo! Mail Plus.
A different user interface which matches the other Windows Stay "Wave 2" applications
Synchronization with Windows Live Contacts
Support for RSS feeds. Notable features include the ability to reply directly via email to the author of an item that appears in an RSS feed, and the ability to aggregate multiple feeds into a single folder. The RSS functionality requires Internet Explorer 7 or newer.
Multi-line message lists, as in Outlook
Emoticons can be used in e-mails and other functions
In-line spell checking
Separate inbox folders for different POP accounts. This is not optional,
Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Business, so it dissatisfied many users who used to the single inbox.
Support for sending picture files in e-mails through the Photo email feature which uploads pictures to a web-based service and sends the URL and thumbnails in the mail. It can also perform basic photo correction and apply different border effects to pictures. [edit] Version 2009 (Wave 3)
A beta version of Windows Reside Mail was released in September 2008. It features a new user interface which, like the other Windows Dwell "Wave 3" beta applications released at the same time, has no icons on the toolbar buttons. It also features a new calendaring function; calendar events automatically synchronise between Windows Reside Mail and the Web-based Windows Dwell Calendar. A "beta refresh" version of Windows Dwell Mail was released on December 15,
Office 2010 Discount, 2008, and this version was officially released as the final version on January 8, 2009.
Version 2009 still contains the same MIME problem with signed mail[2] that Outlook Express has.
[edit] Version 2011 (Wave four)
The first beta became available on June 24, 2010,
microsoft Office 2010 License, sporting the Ribbon interface and a calendar pane. The second beta came with a new start-up screen and other minor updates. The final version of Windows Dwell Mail 2011 was released on September 30, 2010, along with the Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite.
Windows Dwell Mail 2011 is not compatible with Windows XP.
[edit] See also Comparison of e-mail clients
Comparison of feed aggregators
Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
Windows Stay [edit] References [edit] External links Windows Live Mail
Microsoft's comparison of Windows Stay Mail and Outlook Express
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