The inevitable flood of Vista Beta 2 reviews are starting, and today there are two prominent reviews. Tom's Harware UK has spent 500 hours with Vista and given it a general thumbs up in its screenshot heavy review. Ars Technica also takes a look at the progress of Vista, but trivializes some larger Vista features, such as the completely rewritten Windows Mail. 
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Member since:2005-04-01
Windows Mail isn't completely rewritten, it's a rebranded Outlook Express.
Dude, you could not be more wrong.
While it may LOOK a little like OE, the indexing of the Mail files has been completely changed. The way the program works is fundamentally different in the most elemental ways - emails are stored as individual files instead of in a single database file. The program is no longer hooked to IE and is no longer a requirement of the OS. It also has a Bayesian and phishing filter. You can see more in the video here: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=116711
Edited 2006-06-01 16:44
Member since:2006-01-16
How *ASTONISHING*! They really use this ... multi file .. storage thing?!
This has to be a _major_ rewrite!
Others do this for .. years, even support multiple formats (OMG!) for .. years, well I would guess this is a 1 man 1 week job (altering the storage).
And I bet the new format is still not maildir or mh compatible, eh?
I've seen enough of this bussiness "programmers" people who tell you every fart they write is a major step and blah blah blah. And this is just exactly what happens on channel9.
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2006-06-01
"but trivializes some larger Vista features, such as the completely rewritten Windows Mail."
Windows Mail isn't completely rewritten, it's a rebranded Outlook Express. It even has the same interface as before with elements borrowed from Outlook 2003.