I wonder how accessible this will be with screen reading software.
Harvey

Windows Live Mail will replace Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows
Mail on Vista in the coming weeks.
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:00 PM PDT
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As it rolled out its
revamped Windows Live Hotmail
 Monday, Microsoft Corp. also promised it would deliver replacements for the
Outlook Express and Windows Mail desktop clients along with new software to
integrate Web mail with the corporate Outlook program.
Windows Live Mail will replace Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows
Mail on Vista in "the coming weeks," said Microsoft. The program, which will
handle
POP, IMAP and Windows Live Hotmail accounts, was characterized as a faster,
more robust version of
Windows Live Mail desktop beta
, which has been in testing for Windows XP. The beta will be retired.
According to a Windows Live Mail blog, the new client will sport features
from Outlook Express, Windows Mail and the Windows Live Mail desktop beta. A
redesigned
interface supports Vista's Aero look and feel -- the first Windows Live
offering to do so -- and the program adds S/MIME and LDAP support. It will
be advertisement-free.

Also due in the next few weeks, said Microsoft, is an updated Outlook
Connector, software that synchronizes messages, address books, tasks and
calendars
between Windows Live Hotmail and Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. An earlier
edition of the Connector was launched by Microsoft last November.
Swapping in the Windows Live Mail client for Vista's Windows Mail might
surprise Vista users, since the operating system has been out less than four
months.

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