Late QuickMail Upgrade: The Map Is Not the Terrain
Shelly Brisbin
DESPITE HAVING A MAP handy, CE Software has swerved from the course it set for QuickMail last year. When CE released QuickMail 3.5 in mid-1995, it also published the QuickMail Product Roadmap, which laid out plans for versions 3.7 and 4.0. Version 3.7, the plan said, would be ready by the end of 1995, with the 4.0 release scheduled to debut this summer. Instead, CE has just released QuickMail 3.6 (including its first PowerPC-native client software); another upgrade, in June, will add many -- but not all -- of the features promised in the road map.
QuickMail 3.6 boasts improved address-book and Internet-e-mail-address management. The sizes of QuickMail enclosures are now displayed, and QuickSend is back -- this utility, missing from QuickMail for several years, allows users to send e-mail messages from within other applications.
Subscribers to CE's upgrade program will receive QuickMail 3.6 (as well as the June release) free. Prices for upgrades from QuickMail 3.0 and earlier versions range from $3 to $19.25 per user. 800-523-7638 or 515-221-1801; http://www.cesoft.com/.
