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New Windows Live Mail Wave 4 screenshot revealed!

By on January 19, 2010 9:39 PM
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Information about Windows Live Mail Wave 4 keeps flowing in! Yesterday we told you about possible upcoming features in Windows Live Mail Wave 4, and today Picturepan2 @ LiveSino.net got hold of the latest screenshot for the application. So here it is, the main window of Windows Live Mail Wave 4:

Windows Live Mail Wave 4

From the above screenshot you can see that Windows Live Mail is now fully ribbonized, much like Outlook 2010. What’s also similar is the addition of the new Calendar pane on the right showing you the upcoming events in the next few days, but this information comes right from your Windows Live Calendar. Perhaps the most interesting feature is the introduction of Conversation view, which was first introduced in Outlook Web App (or Outlook Live) and one of the main new features of Outlook 2010, here is a closer look:

Conversation view 

Windows Live Mail is definitely heading the right direction from the looks of it, and we get a feeling that it is looking more and more like Outlook 2010 (although it’s free!). Although keep in mind that the screenshots and new features discussed in this article are based on internal pre-release versions, so the actual product (beta or final) may or may not look like it at all. We’ll keep you posted on the latest in the Windows Live Wave 4 world. Stay tuned!

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  • mrx9898

    The bar up the top with the delete/junk/reply buttons etc. looks wayyy too big. It’s a bit of an eyesore if you ask me. Sleek and streamlined thanks :)

  • C.

    Woah. The Live programs sure keep getting uglier with each version. That looks just cluttered and generic.

  • http://khristopher.com/ Khristopher

    Love the ribbon, but the rest is kind of jumbled looking.

    What this application needs to do, is sync with my ipod touch! Or at least the calendar portion.

    • Damaster – LiveSide.net

      Agreed. Although I think that’s an iTunes issue that it supports Outlook but not Windows Live Mail? What is needed is for Hotmail to support Exchange – then our iPhones/iPod touch can sync Calendar/Contacts/Mail with Windows Live.

      • http://cid-280a1538334a1cb9.profile.live.com/ Seika

        And not just iPhone. Blackberry, Symbian, WebOS. Almost all smartphone available in recent years.

  • Guest

    it don’t see any to-do list in this interface. so this perhaps means that there is no task functionality built into the client which is as surprising as it is disappointing. but it is still a beta and this could of course change.

    • http://gregsedwards.wordpress.com Greg Edwards

      If they make another release of WL Mail and “forget” to include some kind of support for the WL Calendar task list, then I’m going to assume someone on the team is smoking crack.

  • redapple

    looks more useful than now… uh, now i cant wait :x

  • http://www.techinch.com/ Matthew

    It’s looking nice in my opinion. I’m excited it’s getting conversation view … hopefully it’s going into Hotmail too!

    One more thing I’d like to see is for Windows Live Mail to support Mail Merge from Word. As far as I know, you can only do it now with Outlook. Since Office Home and Student is so popular, letting Mail Merge work with Live Mail would make a lot of sense. Anyone have any info on this?

    • JohnCz

      I agree that conversation view should be available in the web interface as well.

      Re Mail Merges, we use MS Word to mail merge with contacts in an Excel spreadsheet all the time. In this case, I don’t think it is dependent on the mail client. However, you may be talking about invoking a mail merge from within the WLM. If so, does that make sense to incorporate into a solution targetted for consumers? In my opinion, small business owners who rely on email really should be using Outlook.

      • http://www.techinch.com/ Matthew

        Yes, I was meaning to mail merge an email message from Word. We have tried sending mail merges from Word with the contacts in Excel, but it always says we don’t have a correct mail client. Seems to me like it should work with any email client, but it doesn’t.

  • http://twitter.com/davidhoush David Housh

    This is really cool. I wish Windows Live Wave 4 would introduce access to an online version of Outlook or something similar to Outlook Web Access. This would be nice for those who use Outlook as our default mail client.

    • Damaster – LiveSide.net

      @David Housh: Hmm…the online version of “Windows Live Mail” is “Windows Live Hotmail” right? If you’d like to use Outlook as your mail client to access Hotmail, you may download the Outlook Connector (part of Windows Live Essentials).

  • https://me.yahoo.com/a/bu.yEsMau59XbbqA_1Q0OZ1Yx5TJ4gxeHg--#e031c trix

    As a Outlook Live user at OSU, I’d like Live Wave 4 to support Exchange natively. Why not?

  • James Sterling Young Jr.

    There is one feature that is missing in Windows Live Wave 4. I have been wondering for more than a year why Windows Live Video Messeage Beta is not included in Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Mail, and Windows Live Messenger? It has been in beta for over a year and has a lot of potential.

    • JohnCz

      I’d love to see that go live but integrated into Hotmail rather than a separate Live service like they currently have the Beta configured. I think they are waiting for Silverlight 4 to be released to take advantage of its ability to access WebCam. Currently, I believe it requires an ActiveX component.

  • Fred

    There’s a (crappy) conversation view in the current Windows Live Mail client – it just groups by subject (and doesn’t “bump” conversations, either). I imagine it’s the same here, perhaps with some slight improvements.

    • Damaster – LiveSide.net

      @Fred: You mean the view that you get when accessing Newsgroups in the current Windows Live Mail client? Yes. But I believe that in Windows Live Mail Wave 4 it’ll be similar to what’s available in Outlook 2010 or Outlook Live (Outlook Web Apps) – meaning that it will “bump” conversations.

      • Fred

        It’s available in your email inbox. View > View by conversation.

  • http://weblogs.asp.net/guerchele Luciano Evaristo Guerche

    Wish Windows Live Mail Wave 4 client will work seamlessly with Hotmail (aka Windows Live Mail). I’ve tried Microsoft Outlook + Live Connector and it did not worked fine for me, then I tried Windows Live Mail client and it freezes every two weeks (in Windows 7). Currently, I gave up them both and I am using the web client instead. At least, it has CTRL + > and CTRL + < builtin, does not freeze and works accordingly.

  • technogran

    Do remember all of you that this email program is not aimed at the professional or business user, and that its free as opposed to paid for like Outlook. Outlook is aimed at the more professional user. Windows Live Mail is a desktop email application like Mozilla’s Thunderbird. Its meant to be kept simple to use.
    I love all these changes especially the ribbon interface. Can’t wait to try it all out.

  • JVF

    Love the Office Ribbon and I’m glad to see it come to WLM! Does anyone know of WLM W4 will support Google Calendar? WLC is good, but I prefer GCal.

    One thing that I wish MS would do is pick a UI and stick with it. First there’s icons and text in the WML toolbar, then all the icons are removed (current look) and now the icons and text come back??

    • raywall

      I agree with JVF on all points.

      I hope it will support Google Calendar as well. I prefer the WL Calendar, but it won’t sync (synergy) with my Palm Pre, so I have to use Google Calendar. It would be nice to be able to use GCal with WLM so I can use the client of my choice.

  • pmbaustin

    I hate that “Picture Emails” have been promoted to first class citizens. I’ve always found them completely annoying and useless and frustrating.

    When I paste in an image, I just want it to be an inline image, like in every other email client in the world. I don’t “get” picture emails. All I know is that I can never get them to do what I want. So they’re endlessly frustrating. And it’s a pain to have to paste an image into Paint and save it to disk in order to insert the image inline. Why can’t I just drag and drop or just paste, WITHOUT suddenly transforming my normal email into one one of those confounding and obnoxious “picture emails”?!? It’s such a stupid idea. I want to turn that off and hide it away and pretend it doesn’t exist.

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