We’ve just been helping a client out with their Windows Vista Mail. Totally unrelated to our web hosting business but we like to help other companies in the same building as ourselves!

Windows Mail appears to ‘lose’ entries from the contacts list when they are typed for autocomplete in the ‘to’ field. After scouring the internet it seems that Microsoft didn’t allow Windows Mail to use the Windows Contacts for the autocomplete database. Instead, they had a temporary cache of 20-30 emails that were cycled through for this pseudo-autocomplete database.

Our client, who like many of us, emails a lot more than 20 people a day found this seemingly ‘forgetfulness’ of Windows Mail was driving him up the wall.

No solution from Microsoft save from ‘upgrade to Windows Live Mail’. It seems, even from Microsoft’s own forums, that Windows Mail was an interim and slightly rushed product to get Vista out of the door.

In any case, the client upgraded and this bug is now fixed.

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