New in Windows Live Mail: Search for and insert address info into emails
by at January 8, 2009 2:38 am
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At Steve Ballmer’s CES keynote, an innovative feature was introduced for Windows Live Mail. Here’s the situation: you’re meeting up with a bunch of friends for dinner and you need to send out the name of the restaurant, address, and link to a map to them. Currently, this takes a bunch of steps: 1) do a local search on your favorite search engine, 2) click on the link to the correct restaurant, 3) copy / paste it into the email. What the new feature in Windows Live does is allow you to search from within the compose screen of your webmail. Then, instead of having to copy / paste, you just click the link that says “insert”, and it throws the map link, rating, etc. right into the body of the email message.
Why didn’t Google think of this?
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