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Windows Live Mail Wave 4 to support Gmail’s labels, stars and archiving?

By on January 17, 2010 1:43 PM
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Twitter had been our friend lately to discover new gems about what’s coming in Windows Live Wave 4. We found a tweet by Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief from Engadget.com, who asked the following question:

Joshua Topolsky: How is it possible that no one has made a mail client that keeps the functionality of Gmail's labels, archiving, and stars? How hard is it?

Two hours later, a bit to our surprise, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications Frank X. Shaw replied via twitter:

Frank X Shaw: Windows Live Wave 4

Clearly Frank is implying that Windows Live Mail Wave 4 it will support Gmail’s functionality of labels, stars and archiving. While we’re not sure how this will actually be implemented in the product(s), or whether or not Hotmail Wave 4 will support these too, at least we have some words from a Microsoftie!

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  • http://www.techinch.com/ Matthew

    Wow, sounds nice! I’m hoping for linked conversations in Hotmail (and WLM Wave 4) just like Outlook 2010 and of course Gmail. It can’t come quick enough!

  • FremyCompany

    Would be great !

  • Admodieus

    I would be thrilled if this happened

  • http://menthix.net/ Menthix

    Would be an odd direction for MS, basically giving up on their own @live/@hotmail service. Would make more sense to incorporate such features in Hotmail if they want to keep promoting their own service over the competition.

    Thunderbird (particularly the new version 3) already woks very well with GMail over IMAP, including labels, archiving, and stars. Surely they know that at Engadget, so I’m not sure what Joshua is looking for.

    • Damaster – LiveSide.net

      @Menthix: Thanks for the info! Didn’t know Thunderbird 3 already have that.

      Take note that Frank X. Shaw only wrote “Windows Live Wave 4″…so it may well happen that if Windows Live Mail supports labels, archiving and stars (btw…Windows Live Mail Wave 3 already supports “flagged e-mails”, which is similar to “stars” in Gmail), these features MIGHT be incorporated in Hotmail Wave 4 too. ;)

  • James Sterling Young Jr.

    If you want Gmail Functions then stay with Gmail. Windows Live Mail and Hotmail has it’s own unique style for email service.

  • Fred A.

    I agree with James Sterling Young Jr. If you want Gmail functions, which I don’t think are revolutionary, than use that service. I for one like the way hotmail/live mail are heading.There has been a lot of functions added so far that make it one of the best products-for being a free online email service-out there. I think the hotmail/livemail team is doing a good job…

  • goograwks

    I hope Hotmail/live keeps its own identity and features as I prefer them to gmail, however could it mean that if Live consumes certain services, it will maintain some of the features of said service? Now that would be quite a coup.

  • Hannes

    Can it already be estimated when Wave 4 is due? Interfacewise I also like the current Hotmail a lot. Unfortunately it sometimes drops mails without notifying either the sender or the would-be-receiver. Because of that my main account is at Yahoo (“Plus”) but I still have Hotmail on the radar.

  • Devon

    I’ve been a long time MS customer but since Microsoft decided to put more and more ads (and still this ugly ad at the end of every single mail) into Hotmail, I finally switched. I won’t go back. Support is great, but MS is way too slow. Another example is their Messenger. WLM still doesn’t support any third party networks (I know of Yahoo). After all the years, it’s just SAD and disappointing.

    • http://www.bowlesonline.com/ Joey

      I use hotmail with the Windows Live Mail client. WLM supports http and there are no ads.

      • Popein

        Welll… it sends ads in the bottom of your mails to the recipient. That’s not very nice.

        • Joey

          No ads are appended to your message if you send from Hotmail with the Windows Live Mail desktop client. No ads. Not one. Zero.

  • jackfeed

    Good move, Microsoft. Clearly, there are significant features missing in Hotmail at the moment. Currently, there is no way to mark an item as important or flag it in any way. Adding support for Gmail labels and stars will fix this problem + good PR for Microsoft on interoperability.

  • sjrmay

    This would be very good…wonder if we’ll see Hotmail implementing labels etc in Wave4 too? That would be cool

  • http://www.qualitypoint.blogspot.com/ qualitypoint

    Why can’t you use Gmail which already having label,stars….
    Hava a look on this link to know more abt Gmail
    Uses of Gmail

  • anas

    I wished gmail would think of labels as imap keywords. This way you can transfer the functionality to an imap client. The imap would separate mail based on the keywords attached to it. Maybe Hotmail can be smart enough to do that, that is if it has labels.

    This way i would need to download a single mail seven different times (one for each label)

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