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It's a little disconcerting compared to the clean right-angles of Windows 8's modern design.

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We're not entirely sure about the rounded corners in the panes in the app, a design point that harkens after TouchDown's original Android version.

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There are still rough edges in the TouchDown beta, and you'll need to update regularly as the team fixes bugs and rolls out new code - especially as it adds improved security policy support. This is beta code that's still changing, and to make sure you understand this, each time you start up you're shown a changelog that lets you know when to download a new version. If you do decide to try out the beta, don't rely on it for all your mail. With support for IRM on the horizon, and with many other enterprise security features being added, TouchDown for Windows 8 looks to be the missing enterprise mail client that Windows RT devices like the Surface have been crying out for. Early versions had very few options, but the latest builds have added many more features and configuration tools to go with them. You can also choose to switch between a day view and a week view for calendars. Mail can be flagged and tagged, and there are filters to help you show only unread mail, as well as a folder view that lets you choose what folders to sync. Slide up from the bottom of the screen to open a contextual app bar. You can sync mail from your Exchange server to your Windows 8 device - without affecting data from the Mail, Calendar and People apps, as TouchDown uses its own database for Exchange data. Like Outlook, TouchDown brings email, contacts, calendar, tasks and notes into a single app.

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With support for Android tablets, as well as phones, and recently for iOS, TouchDown is ideally placed to make the jump to Windows 8. An Exchange ActiveSync email client from a small team of ex-Microsoft staff, it's consistently been our Android mail client of choice (especially when, as it often does, the Android team breaks something in its own EAS client code).

If you use Android and have to connect to an Exchange server, you're probably familiar with TouchDown. Luckily much of the process has been automated by NitroDesk, with a simple installation script that handles much of the process for you - from downloading, to starting the developer licence process (all you need is your Microsoft Account details, and you'll be able to run TouchDown for a month until you need to get a fresh licence).

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Now the beta's public, though you'll need to install a Windows 8 developer licence on your device before it can run, as TouchDown is not yet in the Windows Store. TouchDown for Windows 8 running on a Microsoft Surface Windows RT tablet. We were even happier to install the beta code on our test Surface tablets.

So we were pleased to hear last year that the folks at NitroDesk were planning to bring their TouchDown mail app to Windows 8 and Windows RT. But none of them have the same capabilities as a full-blown desktop mail client - something that comes in handy at 38,000 feet in the air…

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Of course, there are alternatives in the shape of web clients for popular services, and IE 10's support for offline working can come in handy here (especially if your mail lives on an Exchange 2013 server, where you can take advantage of the new offline version of the Outlook Web App). , but no timescale for it appearing on our slates. There are rumours of an Outlook RT under development Unfortunately for Windows RT that's not the case: we're stuck using the Mail app and left comparing it unfavourably to the mail clients on our smartphones and pining for the desktop mail clients of old. That's not a problem for Windows 8 on the desktop, where it quickly becomes a secondary tool for sharing email from other Windows Store apps, and most email ends up being handled by Outlook or Exchange, or whatever you were using before you upgraded. It's slowly gaining features, but it's no match for the email clients we've grown used to over the years. Microsoft's default Windows Store email client for Windows 8 is pretty basic. Ukrainian developers share stories from the war zone The best Wi-Fi router for your home office 3G shutdown is underway: Check your devices now