Live mail invitation.

Finally after using my Hotmail account for over 8 years I got an invitation to join Windown Live Mail. I liked the look of it. It is very similar to MS Exchange Server's web access UI.

What's new?

• While you type spell check is done MS Word style, which slows some of the operation
• Auto complete for address
• Drag and drop emails to any folder
• Every time user replies/forwards to a mail not identified by users list of address it prompts a warning. This can get annoying.
• Trash emails with delete key
• Good search
• Can select pane layout

What I did not like:

• AJAX calls can be really slow specially with spell check
• UI is little too white
• Some of the actions are slow
• Some how I lost my signature
• Shortcuts show/hide are not remembered
• Emails from people not in safe-list/address book have all items in mail disabled (eg. images and links)
• Screen space is not utilized effectively

These are a few items I noticed will post more if I come across any.

What is interesting is that the UI has no mention of MSN; I am wondering if MSN will be cannabalized.