I thought that I might like to give Windows Mail a try, on my shiny new Vista install, since it should be more "light weight" than Outlook. But there's a problem, and I don't think I will be using, unless I can figure out a work-around...
Take a look at the two screenshots below:
The one on the left is a screenshot of part of folder list in Windows Mail. The one on the right is a screenshot of the words "Inbox" and "Outbox" that I took from notepad - just for comparison.
Clearly, Windows Mail is being "scaled" - like some legacy application that doesn't handle high DPI displays very well. Strange, thought I, you'd think a brand new version of Windows Mail - built specifically for Vista - would support high DPI displays properly!
Ah, I thought, as I remembered the "disable display scaling" option in the Compatibility tab of the executable's properties. But upon opening that dialog up, I see this:
You'd think if Microsoft were going to go to the trouble to disable all the options on that page, that they'd be good enough to ensure that I don't need to use any of them!
Oh well, maybe Windows Mail really doesn't scale on high DPI displays. But if that's the case, then I'm just not going to use it at all.