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
I've seen enough of this bussiness "programmers" people who tell you every fart they write is a major step and blah blah blah.
What is the basis for your skepticism? Do you have any basis, or are you just slamming Microsoft for no reason?
Is the fact that UI isn't different enough the reason for your doubt?
Member since:2006-01-16
If it was about the UI (as most parts of Vista seem), it wouldn't be a "completely rewritten".
It's just what you told. File format. What a big change. In your news entry you write "completely rewritten", which is not true. It's another piece of software, partially rewritten.
Member since:2005-07-06
It's not just the file format.
Windows Mail now uses the fs as a database rather than having some crappy OCX file being it's own database.
Each piece of mail is stored invididually on the haarddrive, as are contacts.
Not to mention the app itself can handle a LOT more than OE6 could.
Member since:2005-07-06
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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.