I have been testing out Windows Live™ Mail (Beta) for almost 2 months, yes when it was known only as Mail Beta! I have to say I was drooling over the new features when I first got the chance to experience them. Especially the drag & drop support (handy for organizing emails or deleting them). And though sure there are a lot of annoying bugs (like when a "fixed width" HTML email gets clipped from the right ). I have to say that web mail suddenly has become appealing again. The only appeal of Gmail to me was that they were offering POP/SMTP for free, the space thing is a bit too overrated (in my humble opinion) think about it you have a 200 GB hard disk would you really care about the size of your POP account. Though I would like to acknowledge the fact that it is because of GMail that we are able to see increase in attachment limits of all the providers, besides the obvious; newer developments in the form of betas by Microsoft & Yahoo!

Anyways back to Windows Live™ Mail, since the new beta has seen changes in its domain from the earlier start.com to live.com and my Internet Explorer settings are pretty high, as I do use it for browsing purposes (and No! I do not use an Anti Virus program, why? May be I should state that outside this post.) Since I have enabled warning while switching from one zone to another I keep getting warnings when I'm browsing a site in my trusted zone (say passport.net) which contains content from a site from the internet zone, like start.com or live.com (until you add them in the secured zone). Then I realized that it would be really nice if you could add a site to one of the zones when you're prompted with a similar warning sign in IE7. And it would be really great to see the ability to define your own zones in which you could disable combination of various elements like images, Javascript, ActiveX. This can go a long way in allowing the user to define their own level of protection!