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

**haVEFun here** · January 5th, 2017, 11:05 PM

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.

**buttsie** · January 6th, 2017, 01:02 AM

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/

Rommelbommel · January 6th, 2017, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by haVEFun here

Hopefully members with more technical skills can help in this?

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.

**Pepper II** · January 14th, 2017, 01:53 AM

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

January 14th, 2017, 04:34 AM

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

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January 6th, 2017, 01:02 AM	#2
buttsie Porn Archeologist Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: earth Posts: 12,714 Thanks: 92,252 Thanked 241,294 Times in 12,746 Posts	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/

January 14th, 2017, 01:53 AM	#4
Pepper II Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sunny South Florida Posts: 7,852 Thanks: 163,934 Thanked 119,241 Times in 7,641 Posts	I have an e-mail account at msn.com and it's business as usual there.

January 14th, 2017, 04:34 AM	#5
jjjukemd Guest Posts: n/a	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