Friday, June 15, 2012

Windows 8 mail app

My first impressions of the windows 8 mail application ...

Accounts :

The mail app seemed to work straight away with my @live account, and looks like it will offer good synchronisation with multiple accounts however I am unable to get the ?accounts? charm to stay open when running in a VMWare VM, so haven?t tested multiple accounts. The @Live account seemed to cause synchronisation issues for Outlook on another machine which was only resolved by deleting the local ost file.

Likes:

  • Live tiles indicating how many unread emails.
  • Has a clean look

Dislikes:

Conclusion: I wouldn?t consider this a real email client. Security needs to be addressed before recommending to even the most casual of users. It needs rules. And the way it works in a desktop environment really needs to be re-thought.

Steven Sinofsky posted to the windows 8 team blog on their design for the mail app. Sadly I don?t see these issues addressed there .

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