New email clients appearing

In April we had a new version of Thunderbird, yesterday saw the official launch of Windows Live Hotmail, and two more changes are in the offing.

The first is a successor to Outlook Express and Windows Mail on Vista. Called "Windows Live Mail beta", it has the potential to reach a lot of consumer PCs, especially if included in the automatic operating system updates Microsoft pushes out to people.

All the Microsoft / MSN / Windows / Outlook / Hotmail names can get confusing. Fortunately we have the good folk at Campaign Monitor to bring a pool of light into the jargon darkness. Their blog post has more details and an analysis of how the new software affects email design.

Elsewhere, Comcast (home to millions of highspeed Internet users) announced plans to offer their customers an integrated messaging center which has email, instant messaging, voicemail and address management in one.

The "SmartZone communications center" uses Bizanga and Cloudmark tools to protect inboxes from spam.

More on webmail and email | Tags: email marketing, hotmail, windows live hotmail, windows live mail, outlook express, comcast

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