Anyone else feel like the decision to drop support for Windows Mail (and by extension, classic Win7-era mail features) is about more than just “security concerns?”
I’ve used Windows mail clients across multiple versions, and when I look at how streamlined and functional Windows Mail was in Windows 7 compared to what we have now, it makes me wonder: was the move to push everyone to webmail or complex UWP apps really progress, or just a way to tie us tighter to Microsoft accounts and their cloud services?
Is no one else concerned that local, non-cloud, lightweight mail clients are essentially extinct in modern Windows? Everyone seems to accept this as natural, but I miss having a simple, no-nonsense mail client that didn’t try to do a million “AI” things or push me into the Microsoft ecosystem.
Has anyone found a straightforward replacement for Windows Mail’s local POP/IMAP functionality that feels as solid and integrated, without feeling like an ad for cloud storage? Or do we just have to accept this as the new normal?
