Stephen Gentle

I got invited to be a beta tester for windows live mail. So now, when I log in to hotmail, it goes to Windows live mail instead. This is a very nifty little AJAX app, and it behaves just like Outlook. You can click a message in the list to the side, and it shows a preview, and so on. It also has a calendar, which you can set reminders on and stuff. What I don’t like is that it has two HUGE graphical ad blocks, at the top and on the side, flashing away, which gets destracting. I much prefer Gmail’s text ads. Well, I guess you can’t really complain when they give you two gigabytes of storage (why anyone needs 2GB is a mystery to me….).

You can find out more here. You can also submit your email and become a tester (it takes two weeks or more to be processed)

So in conclusion, its pretty cool, but the ads detract from the product. 7.5/10

-Stephen

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