Surprisingly I came across a blog post referring to some of the bugs in Windows Live Mail. There are still quite a few bugs in Windows Live Mail. However two bugs that really need to be fixed will be discussed. Both bugs are very annoying; both of them speak to the attention to quality and detail.
The first bug – Which badly needs to be fixed has to do with viewing a folder in an account. You would have noticed that while performing operations like (deleting a folder for example) Windows Live Mail will repaint the folder view; however, it repositions the view port at the first item, the problem is if you have more folders that fit vertically on the screen, you’re looking at an entirely different time zone than the one that has focus.
A simple fix — Save the view port position before performing the operation; now simply restore the view port position after it before the repaint. I guess the programmer that did this code was sleeping during Windows Programming 101.
The second bug which again badly needs a fix has to do with dragging an email into the files. Windows Live Mail will create a file system safe name for the container file from the subject; however, if the subject ends in “…” (or other character sequences) the file doesn’t get a “.eml” file extension, but rather a “._eml” file extension, how come? I think the programmer was sleeping again. 
These are very simple issues to be fixed, I personally think Microsoft should have patched these bugs, but unfortunately it isn’t the case, what to do? Wait for the fix in the next version? 
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via [Roger Soles]
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