Can you cite sources to the contrary? I think I indicated that I was relying on wikipedia. It's not infallible, but in this case I think Windows Live Mail (WLM) program manager's blog (http://morethanmail.spaces.live.com/ <http://morethanmail.spaces.live.com/> ) supports its information. Among other things, the PM says that "we needed to rationalize the different investments we had in the email space" and that "the future of consumer client email per Microsoft [is] Windows Live Mail." There's also a table in an early post that lists "Features in Each Release," with columns for "Windows XP OE6," "Vista Windows Mail," and "Windows Live Mail Desktop." That seems to indicate that Microsoft thinks of WLM as a successor. Then there's the installer's behavior. http://morethanmail.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B7DD1FF3F141F9A1!3459.entry states that when WLM is installed, Windows Mail and OE shortcuts are replaced with shortcuts to WLM. If that doesn't indicate an intent to have WLM succeed Windows Mail, I'm not sure what would. In any case, I don't think there's any reason that one product cannot be the successor to another. (In fact, while one release of a given product can succeed an earlier release, it seems nonsensical to say that a product succeeds itself.) For instance, Windows XP is a completely different animal than Windows ME, but Microsoft successfully positioned XP as the successor to ME. Copying the list for posterity. Please reply to all. ________________________________
From: Joel Rosenthal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 4:40 PM To: Jesse Pelton Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Windows Mail - Vista Windows Live Mail is NOT the successor to Windows Mail. They are two separate products. Joel Furthermore, Windows Mail has already been succeeded by Windows Live Mail, which is claimed to have a superset of the features in Windows Mail. See http://get.live.com/. r
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