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9月17日 Windows Live Mail Beta Available Today!It has been a long time since you last heard from us, hasn’t it? Probably way too long, I know… But, the good news is that we’re back now and have some very exciting news to share with you today! After lots of hard work from the Windows Live Mail team, we are so thrilled to release a new Beta which you can download today. The team has been chugging away over the last few months and we think you’re really going to love what we have to offer. In addition to a new Beta for Windows Live Mail, many of the applications in the Windows Live Suite are also releasing Beta installs today. Take a look at the blog post on Windows Live Wire for more details… I’m sure you all can’t wait to get started, and I won’t make you read this whole blog post to get the download details…because I’m just nice like that. Click here to download the latest and greatest Windows Live Suite Beta! Here are just a few bookkeeping details for you: Build #: 14.0.5027.0908 (just refer to it as build 0908) Languages: English, Brazilian, French, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin), Italian, Hindi, Japanese and Korean…whew! Upgrading: You should be able to upgrade from Windows Live Mail v1 to this Beta. That said, this is a Beta release so you might want to backup your data every now and again… OK, so what’s new?We received so much great feedback from our customers since the last release (THANK YOU!), and we’ve spent the majority of the time since our last release reviewing that feedback to help us determine what to add in the next version. We hope you like what you see… Suite InstallerOutside of the sleek new design of the setup experience, you will notice that there a few brand new apps being offered for your downloading pleasure. I’m not going to go into the details of each one of these apps right now as there are WAY too many features to point out, and this blog post would just end up being incredibly long. Also, I will point you to a site where you can read more about each of these apps and the great features they have to offer. You can also click on each app in the setup dialog to read a quick blurb about it… As you can see from the image below, you can pick and choose which Windows Live apps you’d like to try out. Of course, we highly recommend giving them all a try!
Calendar – yes, a built-in Calendar!I can safely say that this feature was by far the most widely requested feature from our customers since we started releasing Windows Live Mail publicly…and because of that, we put lots of our team’s resources on making this feature happen. Windows Live has a Calendar service that can be accessed through the web (i.e. through http://calendar.live.com) and now through the Windows Live Mail UI. We’re using this service as our backend which is incredibly useful since it means that you can access your calendars and events either through the Web or Client UI.
As you can imagine, there are a number of features that are included as part of the overall calendar experience… I’ve highlighted a few of them below, but I am not going to go into too much detail for any one of them at this time. As the Beta goes on, we’ll keep posting to our team blog with more in-depth information about each of these features. Sync with Windows Live Calendar service on the webWhen you first sign in to Windows Live Mail with your Windows Live ID, we will automatically import any calendars that might be associated with that account so you can see them right away in the Calendar view! And, of course, any changes to your calendars made from either Windows Live Mail or http://calendar.live.com will sync regularly to help you keep all your events up to date.
Offline supportJust like email in Windows Live Mail, one of the major benefits of using a client calendar is that you have offline support. So, when you need to see the details about an upcoming event, no need to worry about having internet access – all the details can be viewed while offline as well!
Birthday and holiday calendars
Adding EventsThere are lots of ways to add events to your calendar – so we thought it might be useful to mention all the different options here.
Event DialogWhen you’re in Calendar view and click on the “New” button in the toolbar, you’ll get the New Event dialog. This dialog is full of options to help you make sure each event has all the info you need to get you where you need to be on time.
1) Set start and end time for an event, or you can make it an all day event which is great for those out of town excursions… 2) Choose which calendar you’re adding this event to. The initial option will be your primary calendar – but you can change that by selecting the dropdown next to the “All day” checkbox. 3) Create a recurring event. We’ve provided some common recurrence options, like daily, monthly, yearly, etc…, but you can also choose the “custom” option in the dropdown to create your own for those events that might have an odd schedule. 4) Set yourself a reminder – You can choose how much in advance you’d like to be reminded of an event, and then modify your account to send you reminders through email, Messenger toast or even to a mobile device – or even all 3 if that helps!
Quick AddWhat’s even cooler is that you don’t have to open the event dialog to create a new event. All you need to do is select a time or date in the calendar and start typing a subject for that event. You can even drag your mouse across the times/days that the event will take place and an event will be added to your calendar that spans that timeframe – we call this feature “swipe and type”. :-)
“Add to Calendar” buttonWhen you receive an email that has information about an event in it and you want to add it to your calendar, just click on the “Add to calendar” button in the toolbar. This launches an event dialog - and with a few additional clicks you now have all the info you need in your calendar.
Similarly, when you have an event in your calendar that you want others to know about, you can just select that event in your calendar and click on the “Send in e-mail” button in the toolbar. This launches a compose note with all the event details in the body so you can pass the message along to all your contacts!
Easy Event Editing (is that a tongue-twister?)To edit an event, you can double click on it – and this will launch the event dialog again and you can modify it in any way you see fit… OR if all you need to do is update the time/date of an event, you can drag and drop it to the new time! Easy as pie…
Selecting calendar colorsBecause we are sure you will be so excited about the calendar that you’ll be creating many to manage all your upcoming events, we wanted to make it easier for you to easily distinguish which events belong to which calendars. So, when you create a new calendar, you can choose which color you’d like to use for those events.
Shared Calendar
Through the Windows Live Calendar service on the web, you can create a calendar that will be shared with your contacts. This is super handy for families to keep track of everyone’s busy schedules… Any changes made to a shared calendar through Windows Live Mail will show up on the calendars of anyone else who is subscribed to that calendar.
ContactsWe’ve also made a few updates to our Contacts view, particularly in the way we represent the online status for your Messenger contacts. If you’re a Messenger user, you will see similar visual changes there…
New UIFirst off, you’ll notice that your Messenger contacts no longer have a Messenger pawn next to them to display status information! We’ve removed the pawns in favor of a design where the status of the contact is represented right on their user tile. And if you’re using the list view (instead of the Tile view), the status is represented by a color and not by the Messenger pawn. Here’s a quick rundown of what each of these colors means…
FavoritesIn the contacts view, there is a new category labeled “Favorites”. The cool thing about this category is that any contacts that you add here, either through Messenger or Mail, will show up in both locations. So, for example, if I add someone to my Favorites category through Messenger – the next time my contacts sync in Mail, I’ll see the updates there as well. This is a nice and easy way to quickly access the contacts that you interact with most frequently across multiple apps… Send us feedback!If you aren’t new to the Beta program, many of these options won’t be different from what you’ve seen in the past… If you are new, however, here’s the quick and dirty guide to how to get feedback to the product team. All of these options are available through the Help dropdown in Windows Live Mail. (I’ll be doing another blog post shortly to walk through each of these in more detail…) Newsgroup: This is where you should go if you want to discuss something that you’re seeing in the product with other beta testers and the product team. It’s great for talking about a feature or trying to see if someone else is also experiencing the same problems you are. Feedback: This is where you should go when you just want to send us your thoughts about the product as a whole, or about specific features (good/bad, I like this feature/I hate this feature, I’d like to see this in the feature/I wish you’d take this out of the feature, etc…). The product team won’t be able to respond to you through this channel, so be aware of that. Support: If you’re experiencing an issue that is blocking you from using the product and you need an immediate resolution (i.e. you can’t sign in, you’re getting sync errors, etc…), you should contact our support team for help. If it’s not critical and it’s just a bug in the Beta product, then the newsgroup is probably the better place to go for this. That’s about it for now! Can’t wait to hear what you think…so please send us feedback! Tanja – Windows Live Mail Program Manager 评论 (221)
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