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by David Chartier on October 9, 2005 at 04:00 PM

Bryan Starbuck, the development lead for Outlook Express, has revealed on his blog that the app will be renamed to Windows Mail. As always these days, combating spam is top priority and its received a lot of attention. Thankfully, there are going to be a lot of functionality enhancements too, as there's a new "search as you type" feature, and mail will be indexed as individual messages which will play a lot nicer with searching from outside the app.

I found a 45 minute interview with Bryan at Channel 9 on some of the intricacies of Windows Mail, and check out Bryan's blog at MSN Spaces for yet more info on Windows Mail getting all growed up.

[via Hawk Wings]

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J.T. MillOct 10th 2005 5:48AM

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The name switch makes sense to me. 'Outlook' doesn't say much about the name of a product, yet Mail makes perfect sense. Only thing I'm curious about is if Mac OS's similarly named program had anything to do with it.

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Mike WhalenOct 9th 2005 5:31PM

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Ummm... What's with the "Checkin Mail?" Is that the name of a folder? Is MS trying to get hip? "Yo, bitch, we be checkin' de mail up in dis hizzouse!"

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Martin DeanOct 9th 2005 5:45PM

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I don't think I would ever go back to OE no matter what they decide to call it.
I have lost too much email by relying on it. I'm no gmail now and very happy :)

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