![]() ![]() ![]() You would think that migrating from the official mail client for Windows 7, to the official mail client for Windows 10, would not be so difficult. This is all more work than it should be, for what must be a common scenario. There is an export option to “Exchange” format which means you can migrate messages from Live Mail to Outlook. Another option is to subscribe to Office 365 and pay a monthly fee.Įven if you intend to migrate to Outlook eventually, it may make sense to use Live Mail for a while on Windows 10. Office Home and Student does not include Outlook, and to buy it separately costs more, currently £109 in the UK. However, Microsoft makes Outlook expensive for home users, presumably to protect its business sales. The better answer then is to migrate to full Outlook. This application is no longer being maintained though, and there are some compatibility issues with some email services. Here it is, installed and connected on Windows 10: You do need the full setup, called wlsetup-all.exe, rather than the web version which downloads components on demand. If you can find the Windows Live installation files though, it still runs fine on Windows 10. Incidentally I am writing this post in Windows Live Writer, another component of Essentials, but which fortunately has been published as open source. However Microsoft has declared Windows Live Essentials, of which Live Mail is a component, out of support and it is no longer available for download. The answer used to be that Windows Live Mail actually works fine on Windows 10, so you can just install it. Unfortunately Microsoft does not currently have any solution for this. He has an archive of old messages which are valuable to him, and they are only in Windows Live Mail. He has happily used Windows Live Mail (and before that Outlook Express) for many years. A contact of mine has just been through this exact scenario. ![]() Your email archive is in the cloud, so why worry about old emails in your Mail client? Second, Microsoft figures that most people now have a cloud-centric approach to email. This is important, because it means there is no internal pressure to make the Mail app better. Everyone at Microsoft uses Outlook for email, which is a desktop application. First, Microsoft does not really care about the Mail app. Back to my scenario: how are you meant to transition from Windows Live Mail, the official mail client for Windows 7, to the Mail app in Windows 10, if there is no import feature? It is like the UWP Calculator app, another pet hate of mine – I press the Calculator key on my Windows keyboard, up comes the Calculator, then I type a number and it doesn’t work, I have to click on it with the mouse before it accepts input. ![]() Sometimes it behaves oddly, an open message closes unexpectedly. For example, pasting text from the clipboard is hilariously slow and flashes up a “Pasting” message in an attempt to disguise this fact. More fundamentally, it is a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app and doesn’t quite integrate with the Windows desktop as it should. One of the annoyances, for example, is that the folders I want to see are always buried under a More button. It is hard to articulate exactly what is wrong with it, but it is not a pleasure to use. I use it regularly now myself, because there is an account I use which works in Mail but not in Outlook. It still has no import or export feature. It is more intuitive for new users because it no longer relies on a “Charms bar” to modify accounts or other settings. The Mail app in Windows 10 is (by the looks of it) evolved from the Windows 8 app. However it lacks any import or export facility. Microsoft declared it the successor to Windows Live Mail. Unlike Windows Live Mail, this is a “Modern” app with a chunky touch-friendly user interface. Windows 8 introduced a new built-in email client called Mail. Although the underlying code has changed over the years, the user interface of all these products has a family resemblance. This replaced Outlook Express, and that evolved from Microsoft Mail and News, which was bundled with Internet Explorer 3 in 1996. It was first released in 2007, replacing Windows Mail which was released with Vista in 2006. Operating systems generally come with a built-in mail client, and Windows Live Mail is in effect the official free email client for Windows 7. You PC is getting old though, so you buy a new PC running Windows 10, and want to transfer your email account, contacts and old messages to the new PC. Scenario: you are using Windows 7 and for email, Windows Live Mail, Microsoft’s free email application. ![]()
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