The blog post entitled Our Beta is public! from the Windows Live Mail Desktop team announces that everyone can now get access to the Windows Live Mail Desktop beta. Think of it as the Windows Live version of Outlook Express. Some of the key features are described in the blog post and excerpted below
Junk and phishing protection Support for RSS feeds Photo email (share & publish your photos as slideshows to the internet!) Blog it! 3 pane view of email Integration with Windows Live Messenger Active Search Multiple account aggregation Instant Search Free client access to your hotmail account Lots more and with even more to come!
More details on the various features can be found in blog posts such as Better Together with Active Search, A picture is worth a thousand words and Where did we come from? Where are we going?. I've worked with this team on a a few of their features and it's great to see that folks can now check try out the fruits of our labor.
Sign up for the beta and let the team know what you think.