It grabs your mail from multiple accounts and reliably delivers messages to your inbox, accomplishing the central requirement of an e-mail application without too much trouble. Making the window smaller collapses the left-hand pane. Frustratingly, some basic but useful parts of Windows 8.1 Mail were stripped out in this new version. To me, this change alone makes the Windows 10 Mail, Calendar, and People apps more pleasant to use than their predecessors.īut naturally, Windows 10 Mail has bugs and features that should be included but aren’t. The Mail window can also be resized however you’d like, instead of running only in a full-screen or split-screen “snap” view. It has the same basic layout as the 8.1 version but makes more options visible instead of hiding them behind gestures, in keeping with Microsoft’s move back toward a more desktop-centric operating system. At first glance, Windows 10 Mail looks like an improvement. Microsoft’s stock e-mail app for Windows was on a clear upward trajectory, from a rough start in Windows 8 to a far more usable version in Windows 8.1. Somehow I expected the Mail application in Windows 10 to be better than it is.