I would like to propose the following simple improvements of Window Live Mail:
1. When in the present edition of Live Mail the user starts preparing a new e-mail and clicks on "To..." a windows will appear with the text "Sending an e-mail". In this window all contacts will be shown. If this list is quite long, it might take quite some time to find the right address. If, like in Outlook Express, in the window "Sending an e-mail" a small menu would be available for choosing a certain category of contacts, the user could make his/her choice a lot faster.
2. In Live Mail one can also make a new e-mail from the page "Contacts". This can be done by activating one or more person in a contact list and then push on the icon "E-mail" in the menu bar. In the present edition of Live Mail the chosen person(s) will appear in the box "To..." of the new e-mail. But in this procedure there is no possibility to put contacts in "cc" or "bcc". This problem could easily be solved by adding a menu to the icon "E-mail" where the user can choose for "To", "cc", of "bcc".
3. In addition to the list "All contacts" it would be nice to have also a list called "Recently added contacts". There the contacts will appear that by Live Mail will automatically be added to the contact list and also the contacts that one adds through right-clicking with the mouse on a certain address in an incoming e-mail. This list will be similar to the list that is known in Outlook Express, where it is called "Contacts of the main identity". From this list the user could later move the new contacts to one of his/her categories. The total number of contacts in this new list and those in the various categories would always add up to the number shown in "All contacts".
4. The icon "Address lists"' in the menu bar of the page "Contacts" would better be called "Look for a contact".
5. The icons in the menu bar of the page "Contacts" might be put in a more logical order.
If the above might not be clear, please let me know. I would be very happy if fairly shortly the presented changes could be executed. Live Mail is not a bad program at all, but it could be made a lot nicer for the user by the above-mentioned small changes.