Chapter 2: Windows 8 Mail, People, and Calendar Apps
In This Chapter
How the new Win8 communication apps hang together
Choosing a Mail, Contacts, and Calendar app
Navigating Win8’s tiled Mail
Placing all your contacts in Win8 People
Avoiding duplicates and other Win8 Calendar problems
The Windows communication apps — Mail, Calendar, People, and to a lesser extent, Messaging — form the core of Microsoft’s Windows 8 tiled app assault.
On the one hand, they’re free — or, I should say, no additional cost when you buy a Windows computer. So you can’t really expect too much out of them. On the other hand, they’re competing against other free communication apps — I won’t mention the iPad by name — so there’s a lot of pressure to deliver solid apps that people will want to use.
The communication apps in Win8 don’t quite deliver the breadth and depth of features and ease of use that will draw ...
