RSSWindows Live Desktop Apps Renamed
By Nate Mook | Published July 13, 2006, 11:45 AM
In order to lessen some confusion surrounding its Windows Live Web services and desktop applications, Microsoft has opted to rename two of its products. The Windows Live Search application, formerly known as OneView, will now be called Windows Live Search Center. A beta release is coming soon.
Search Center uses the Windows Desktop Search engine and integrates with Office 2007 to provide live previews of documents. Windows Live Mail Desktop, meanwhile, will take on a similar name: Windows Live Mail Center. The ad-supported desktop client will eventually replace Outlook Express -- now dubbed Windows Mail -- and links up with Microsoft's webmail services along with standard POP and IMAP accounts.
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"The ad-supported desktop
client will eventually
replace Outlook Express"
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Just like your favorite rodent said when this
story originally came out:
This adware client may begin as optional, but
eventually shall replace Microsoft's free non-ad
client.
Sleazy.
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The Computer Rodent
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|Consider:
The link provided says *nothing* about it 'replacing' OE.
Common sense and past press indicates this is *not* the case.
Soooo...
"The ad-supported desktop
client will eventually
replace Outlook Express"
Is a quote directly from Betanews. Not exactly the a bastion of accurate and unbiased reporting (No Offense, guys).
Good luck with that.
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|I was a little disappointed at that speculation from BN, actually.
I have no idea where that came from, but it doesn't seem to have any basis whatsoever.
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|Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another marathon session of Microsoft bashing.
LEEEETS Get REEEAADY TO RUUUMMMMMBBLLE!!!!
edit:
Sorry just couldn't resist because I just know that this is going to draw all of the MS bashers out from under their rocks.
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|...and how.
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|If it even mentions Microsoft the bashers flock here.
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|NO! NO! NO!
Windows Live Mail Desktop will !!NOT!! replace Outlook Express! Get this right and stop adding to the confusion that Microsoft has caused by their inability to intelligently name products.
Windows Mail application in Vista replaces Outlook Express and will only be available in Vista, does not support non-POP/IMAP connections, but also doesn't have ads built in.
Windows Live Mail Desktop is a separate program that allows connecting to all sorts of other mail options. While it will support more than just POP and IMAP, reportedly including GMAIL and AOL, it is ad-based.
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|from http://ideas.live.com
"Does Windows Live™ Mail Desktop Beta let me get e-mail from more than one e-mail account?"
"Yes, you can add multiple accounts, both Web-based ones (like MSN® Hotmail®, AOL and Gmail), and POP3- or IMAP-enabled accounts (the kind of e-mail you usually get on your desktop with an e-mail client like Microsoft® Office Outlook®)."
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|The way I've understood it (maybe wrong) is that Windows Mail will replace Outlook Express in Vista but Windows Live Mail Desktop is meant as a replacement for Outlook Express on XP. So..the statement that Windows Live Mail Desktop is not a replacement for Outlook Express isn't entirely accurate. Like I said...I may be mistaken in the way I'm understanding Microsoft.
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|This is dumb.
They should just call it:
"Windows Live Application Mail Center Desktop Search Taskbar Menu Naming Thing".
What's with all the retarded long names? MS is smoking some serious crack.
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|am i the only one confused?
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|Nope. You're not alone. I don't see how changing "Windows Live Mail Desktop" to "Windows Live Mail Center" makes the distinction any clearer.
I think it makes the difference less clear myself, but I guess I'm not the one being paid a ton to come up with these ideas.
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|Good thing you're not because someone needs to be fired.
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|MS needs a Product Naming Czar. Someone with taste and common sense through which all product naming must pass.
They keep saying they're learning how to name products, but we rarely see examples of that.
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|Nope, Microsoft confuses us all at one time or another. Seems to be happening quite often over the past year.
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|"Windows Live Mail Desktop, meanwhile, will take on a similar name: Windows Live Mail Center. The ad-supported desktop client will eventually replace Outlook Express"
And so goes by the days of Microsoft including a Free, non-ad-supported e-mail client.
Why does Microsoft feel the need to squeeze penny's out of things they've offered for free for the last 10+ years? Greed I guess.
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|Maybe because it can benefit the customer with target ads? My friend is fine with target text ads from Google, he is actually happy about it, for me, I block all ads.
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|But you wouldn't be able to block THESE ads, at least not as easily.
Using a HOSTS-file based blocking, maybe. Depends how it's done.
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|The integrated e-mail client in Vista will *not* be Windows Live Mail Center.
It is an *optional* download that a user can choose whether or *not* to install.
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|Sorry, man. Only ignorant MS-Bashers are allowed in here. ;P
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|just subscribe for $9/year to http://mail.live.com and you wont have to see any ads.
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|But MIcro$oft doesn't make enough money... Come on now. :D
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|$9 per year?!!? The outrage!!! How dare they? That's 75 cents each and every month!
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