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Windows Live introduced new Desktop E-mail checking software for your everyday e-mail usage. It's a quick alternative to outlook with a Windows Live interface. A simple, powerful tool that lets you get e-mail from multiple accounts in one place and integrates your mail with Windows Live™ Spaces, Windows Live Contacts, Windows Live Messenger, and more.

Key Features:

1. Speedy access to multiple e-mail accounts in one place (even AOL, Gmail, and many others)
2. Compose and manage e-mail while offline: simply connect to the internet and your messages are sent and new messages downloaded
3. A reading pane and drag-and-drop features, so you can quickly read and manage your mail
4. Synchronization with Windows Live Mail and MSN® Hotmail® accounts
5. Easily share your images with friends and family and create slide shows using the powerful photo e-mail tools
6. Launch a Windows Live Messenger conversation right from the program
7. Post Blog content to your Windows Live Space with the click of a button
8. Get your newsgroups and RSS feeds as easily as you get e-mail
9. Virus scanning for all Windows Live Mail and Hotmail accounts
10. Smart Screen technology helps protect all your e-mail accounts from junk mail and phishing scams
11. Color-coded messages help you quickly identify safe and suspicious e-mail

I've been using this program for a quite sometimes now. Looks neat. Most probably Microsoft is trying to get the market of Mozilla Thunderbird. Try it and see.

Try the Windows Live Mail desktop beta

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Netjaxer is an easy way to integrate your favorite web apps into Windows. Create a desktop or quick launch icon. Load any web page when Windows starts and run it as a tray icon.

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Google’s released a new version of their Desktop Search tool which includes a controversial "access your data anywhere" feature that requires users store their personal files on Google’s servers.

* Computer A (say, a home PC) and computer B (the one at work) both download Google Desktop, which indexes all files on the hard drives and sends text copies of Office documents (Word, Excel) and other files to Google.

* Computer B signs into Google, searches for a file on Computer A and retrieves it. Google says it only keeps the data for 30 days and will delete the files if not accessed.

While Google says users want the convenience of cross-computer file access from anywhere, privacy advocates are understandably concerned.

For (EFF attorney Fred) Von Lohmann, the reality of what’s on your computer - and potentially on Google servers - outweighs convenience. "Unless you go to the trouble of configuring Google Desktop carefully, it will cough up your tax returns, medical and financial records, and any other text files you happen to have."

Oh yeah, and Desktop 3 also supports locking down your computer so others can’t search it while you’re away, and easy "share with a friend" Sidebar info capabilities.

Google Desktop Beta [Google]
Google’s newest search tool raises privacy concerns [USA Today]