Windows Live Mail 2012 discontinued on January 10..(?)
 

Apparantly mail adresses with:

@outlook.com, @live.com, @hotmail.com and @msn.com

cannot receive nor can send email from January 10th, 2017.

I have only limited knowledge in these matters:

it seems outlook.com is an alternative but has to activated.

also mozilla thunderbird and Gmail ( google mail?)are alternatives.

Yet i do not know more/ full details.

Hopefully members with more technical skills can help in this?

Thanks in advance!

Regards, hfh.

Microsoft is slowly but surely moving everything towards user pays via a yearly subscription
Plenty of alternatives about - just depends what your after

I use gmail and they keep the spam quiet as a church mouse which is all i require

Best Free Email Software 7 options reviewed - April 2015 last update
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...l-software.htm

I used to use this rather than outlook or thunderbird but that was for an ISP email account
Worth a look given its free

http://www.mail2web.com/

You totally mix up mail clients (software) with webmail services. From what I've found with a quick internet search, you can keep your e-mail address if it's one of those you mentioned, but you just have to use another mail software.

I have an e-mail account at msn.com and it's business as usual there.

I have @hotmail.com accounts
All remain active and working. Changes were made over the past 3 years. I've not received any notification about changes on email since. But I know that my @hotmail.com addresses now exist on outlook.live.com