At the beginning of time, on Windows PCs, mail could be managed, as well as with Microsoft Outlook, with a program called Outlook Express, which was then withdrawn by Microsoft in favor of Windows Live Mail . The Live Mail download was included (and still is) in a program package called Windows Live Essentials 2012, which also included the popular MSN Messenger.
Windows Live Mail has always been a very simple program, compatible with all external mail services and not necessarily by Microsoft, optimized for Hotmail and Outlook.com.
Like the other programs in the Essentials suite, however, it has been discontinued by Microsoft which in these days has announced the interruption of the support, thus leaving the program to its destiny.
Being a software that is based on internet connection and data transmission, it therefore becomes risky to continue using Live Mail and it is better for everyone to remove it forever .
What you did with Windows Live Mail, send and receive mail from your PC, you can do it today without programs, directly from the websites of applications such as Gmail and Outlook.com, very modern, optimized and working even with other email addresses .
We have therefore seen the guides to send Email from Gmail with any email address and how to combine all Email addresses into one on Outlook.com.
These web apps have everything you need to manage emails and also the calendar of appointments and also provide synchronized apps for smartphones and tablets.
The real alternative program certified by Microsoft to replace Windows Live Mail is the free Windows 10 and 8.1 Mail app, which, as already described in another article, integrates into the system with notifications and voice management.
Alternatively, there are certainly other programs still good, listed in the list of the best Email clients alternative to Microsoft Outlook for reading mail from the PC, among which Mozilla Thunderbird stands out, currently at version 45.
