Feedback - First Impressions

[Guest]

I've been waiting months to use this product and after using it for <5min I'm
already ready to uninstall it.

I too find it more than annoying you have to log in to WLMD via Hotmail.
However, more annoying is that for a desktop mail client you can't change
your default "send" account aways from said Hotmail account. This in iteself
makes WLMD pretty much a non-starter in my books, why should a user be FORCED
into having Hotmail as my default e-mail account - on a desktop mail client!?

Now, maybe I'm misunderstanding the target of this product... I thought it
was an Outlook Express replacement - if so it fails because of the above. If
it's supposed to be a desktop version of Hotmail, then I guess it's ok.

So far I have one more complaint, the little icon for WLMD on the taskbar
looks like an icon for an e-mail reply window and not for the main e-mail
client. This is a little confusing as I was trying to figure out where WLMD
went...

 

[PuppyBreath]

Only thing I can reply to factually on this one is that Windows Mail is the
replacement for Outlook Express. The rest I don't know anything about. Don't
use Hotmail.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

He is talking about Windows Live Mail Desktop, which has nothing to do with
Windows Mail except that it is the same programming team and Microsoft in
its infinite wisdom sends WLMD users here.

 

[StephenB]

I've been waiting months to use this product and after using it for <5min I'm
already ready to uninstall it.

I too find it more than annoying you have to log in to WLMD via Hotmail.
However, more annoying is that for a desktop mail client you can't change
your default "send" account aways from said Hotmail account. This in iteself
makes WLMD pretty much a non-starter in my books, why should a user be FORCED
into having Hotmail as my default e-mail account - on a desktop mail client!?

Now, maybe I'm misunderstanding the target of this product... I thought it
was an Outlook Express replacement - if so it fails because of the above. If
it's supposed to be a desktop version of Hotmail, then I guess it's ok.

So far I have one more complaint, the little icon for WLMD on the taskbar
looks like an icon for an e-mail reply window and not for the main e-mail
client. This is a little confusing as I was trying to figure out where WLMD
went...

Thanks for your comments, Vito. as I understand the design decisions, the team
wanted to make WLM Desktop users have and use a Hotmail account as the primary
account. There's a bunch of feedback like yours being floated to the team
suggesting that they reconsider this design decision.
-steve