Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop — or Even Their Phones 308
jbrodkin writes "The e-mail client in Windows 8 is the shell of a potentially good application — but Microsoft hasn't given it the proper care it deserves. With less than a month before Windows 8 hits RTM, Mail is a mess that doesn't support IMAP, can't connect to servers with self-signed certificates, and lacks basic features like flagging messages for followup. Metro Mail is feature-deficient compared not just to other desktop and tablet apps — it's behind Microsoft's own phone platform. Whether used on a tablet or desktop, this in-depth look concludes that Metro Mail in its current form will have users pining for a real desktop application."
Shame that Mozilla gave up on thunderbird (Score:2, Interesting)
They could of took the opportunity to say don't like your Windows mail client, switch to Thunderbird.
Re:Ready? Oops! Oh noooooOOOO! (Score:5, Interesting)
with gmail being the single largest mail service in the world,... nobody wants to put a lot of energy into legacy mail applications any more.
Yes, but we're not talking about just anybody, we're talking about Microsoft here. If anyone wanted to pour enormous amounts of money into projects just to hurt Google, it'd be them. I'm surprised they aren't trying harder on this thing. Sure, you might point to their own competing online mail service, Hotmail, but that thing is doing horribly these days. You'd think they'd want to pour resources into anything that competes with Gmail.
EPIC MEGAFAILFEST (Score:3, Interesting)
Win8 makes ME, Vista, Clippy, Bob and even GFWL seem like well-thought-out good ideas in comparison.
Re:So you're telling me (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually, you get the worst of both worlds. Deleting/moving emails in thunderbird will have unpredictable consecuences in gmail, and you're likely to see the same email in diferent mailboxes (folders in thunderbird, tags in gmail).
You'll see gmail mailboxes as [GMAIL] in thunderbird, and the thunderbird ones in [IMAP], and have plenty more issues.
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