10 Facts About Windows Mail

Windows Mail can be traced to a pre-release version of Outlook Express 7 included in early builds of Windows Vista .

Windows Mail is a fundamentally new application with significant feature additions and fundamental revisions to the storage architecture and security mechanisms.

Account configuration information is no longer stored in the Windows Registry or in a single dbx file—instead, Windows Mail relies on XML files stored within a user profile alongside email, making it possible to simply copy an entire email store to another machine.

Windows Mail is intended to be a significantly more secure offering than Outlook Express by including Bayesian spam filtering, email attachment blocking, junk email filtering functionality of Microsoft Exchange, the Phishing Filter of Internet Explorer 7, and top-level domain blocking.

Windows Mail has a documented application programming interface based on Component Object Model .

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Windows Mail is excluded from Windows 7 in favor of Windows Live Mail, part of Windows Essentials.

Windows Mail is updated independently from the operating system and is bundled with Calendar and People—it cannot be installed or uninstalled individually.

Mail and Calendar are still Universal Windows apps and are in the same app container, but their third sibling, People, is moved out of this container and is a standalone app by itself.

Windows Mail uses a settings panel, email sorting tools in the second pane, and a toolbar in the viewing pane.

In December 2019, Windows Mail added non-removable advertisements for the Microsoft Outlook mobile app.