3月3日
Where did we come from? Where are we going?
Windows Live gives our team new ways to innovate quickly and get those improvements to our customers. It's a good time to look at a little into our past, in order to see what will be in Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta.
The History
The same team that brought you Windows Mail in
Vista is now releasing our next generation mail client. We took all of the learning from our experience developing the many versions of Outlook Express, the improvements we made when we released Windows Mail (OE’s new name) in Vista and used that knowledge to build a new mail experience we think is very special and cool.
Great places to learn about the improvements made in Windows Mail in Vista are covered here:
The feature list below will show the feature evolution between Windows XP's Outlook Express, Windows Vista's Windows Mail, and Windows Live Mail Desktop.
RSS
The new RSS feature is one I use often. Different people like to read RSS in different ways. Internet Explorer v7 (download
here) has a new innovative way to switch from a web site to its RSS feed. Their approach is innovative and will build a following. My personal preference is for Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta's traditional model using folders, read/unread list, and a preview pane.
Here is what is possible in the RSS feature of Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta:
- When I see a blog entry I like, I can click "forward" and email it to my friend.
- I can click "Reply" and let the blog author know what I think about that post. Reply is invaluable in email, why not have it for blogs?
- Quick Search Box: There is a box in the top of the email client. As you type, the list of messages are filtered so only the messages that include the search text are shown. For RSS this will search the title and blog description.
- Map feeds to folders: Windows Live Mail Desktop allows you to map several feeds to a single folder if you want. This is a great way to reduce the number of folders to eliminate scrolling. Separate folders often aren't needed for feeds that receive posts infrequently.
- Traditional support: All of the features you expect from most RSS readers, including drag & drop to folders, read/unread, folders to organize subscriptions.
- Blog It!: This is a very cool feature. Vlada on our team worked on this feature and she will tell you all about it soon.
Blog sites should supply the email address and names in their RSS feed if they would like the reply by email feature to fill in the "TO:" line when the user clicks Reply.
ArsTechnica on feedburner.com is a good example of a compatible feed. We use the Internet Explorer v7 RSS platform which normalizes the blog XML.
To Enable RSS items to support "Reply by Email":
- RSS 0.9x & RSS 2.0: channel/managingEditor and item/author should contain the author in the form "email (full name)".
- RSS 1.0: Work the same except by using the elements channel/dc:creator and item/dc:creator.
- Atom 0.3 and 1.0: Stores the name and email address in elements feed/author/name and feed/author/email. (Or set feed/entry/author)
-Bryan Starbuck
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