Windows Live Mail
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Windows Live Mail 2012 running on Windows 8
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Last release | 2012 (v16.4.3528.0331) (November 4, 2014) |
| Development status | Discontinued |
| Operating system | Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8 |
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| License | Freeware |
| Website | windows |
Windows Live Mail (formerly named Windows Live Mail Desktop, code-named Elroy) is a freeware email client from Microsoft. The application is available for download via the Windows Essentials suite.
Windows Live Mail is the successor to Windows Mail on Windows Vista, which was the successor to Outlook Express on Windows XP. It officially supports running on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows 8, and is also compatible with Windows 10.
The first version of Windows Live Mail was released on 6 November 2007. The Windows Live Mail version numbering starts at 12 because this application is an advancement of Windows Mail, not an entirely new application. Windows Live Mail is developed by the same team that wrote Windows Mail.
Windows Live Mail has all of the features of Windows Mail. It also adds the following new features:
While Windows Live Mail is the successor to Windows Mail on Windows Vista, there were several differences in functionality between Windows Live Mail and Windows Mail when it was released in 2007. These include:
A beta version of Windows Live Mail was released in September 2008. It features a new user interface which, like the other Windows Live "Wave 3" beta applications released at the same time, has no icons on the toolbar buttons. It also features a new calendaring function; calendar events automatically synchronise between Windows Live Mail and the Web-based Windows Live Calendar. A "beta refresh" version of Windows Live Mail was released on 15 December 2008, and this version was officially released as the final version on 8 January 2009. This was the last version to support Windows XP.
Version 2009 still contains the same MIME problem with signed mail that Outlook Express has.
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