When you open Mail, the entire right pane has a picture of blue clouds. You can set it to whatever image you would like, but when I open the mail client, I would prefer an option to be able to display whatever message is the latest. I also don’t love the giant image on the right. It’s a small thing, but I’ve gotten used to dismissing notifications, so you would think it would be the same action in email but it is not. First, and I believe this is important for consistency in the operating system, the default action of swiping left to delete a message is the exact opposite of Action Center, where you have to swipe to the right to remove a notification. You can change what the swipes do in options as well.Īs a basic mail client, it works fine, but there are some issues with it out of the box which may or may not get fixed over time. Swiping left deletes the message, and swiping right marks it as flagged. Like the mobile apps, the Windows 10 app now supports swiping the messages in the inbox to delete or flag the messages, which is a great way to deal with the mail when using touch. When no email is selected, the right pane displays an image, which by default is an image of clouds. The basic layout is a list of accounts and folders on the left, with the current folder list in the center, and a reading pane on the right. This acquisition was about more than just iPhone and Android though, and the design of their email client has certainly permeated into the Windows 10 mail client as well. In December 2014, Microsoft acquired Acompli, which was one of the highest ranked email clients on iOS.
This improved, at least slightly, with Windows 8.1, but for Windows 10 Microsoft has once again overhauled these products to follow the Windows 10 design language, and all of them are Universal Windows Apps which means that they are not only updated through the store, they are also scalable and can work on small phones, all the way up to large desktop devices, with different layouts depending on what device type they are being used on.Įmail is a staple of our lives now, and a quality experience is something that we have come to expect and rely on.
But the Windows 8 versions of the apps were very sparsely laid out, and although they worked on touch, the design and functionality was lacking. Windows 8 brought new touch-first versions of all of these apps, and they could be tied to your Microsoft Account to allow mail, contacts, and calendar, to easily sync among devices. I’m not sure that ever really happened though. The idea behind this was that by moving them out of Windows, they would be able to be updated more often.
In the days of Windows 7, the basic functionality of email, calendar, and contacts, were split out of Windows 7 and moved into Windows Live Essentials.
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