i am currently trying out windows live essentials beta and am fairly impressed by the integration.. it was a simple matter to setup all my email accounts (gmail and hotmail included) with windows live mail and the new photo gallery is great… except that it “saves” any changes you make to a picture without asking you
the revert button soon fixes this but it still annoys me
windows live writer seems to work well, its pretty seamless with blogger
my first annoyance was discovering that the new Movie Maker Beta was only for windows Vista… and i use XP pro
my main gripe is that windows live mail takes longer to download some emails and pictures than just going to hotmail through your web browser (but i like how i just had to type my gmail account details in and it automatically setup imap and everything else
i will be keeping an eye on this package and hope to see it improve with the official release
