Additionally, Windows Live Mail was designed not to be an email client for itself but rather a sort of 'advertisement' for Microsoft paid services. There were options to make Windows Live Mail more comfortable to use but that wasn't it. So in fact, if you had multiple accounts, you'd have multiple Inboxes as well. Unfortunately, Windows Live Mail was quite different from Outlook Express and wasn't really a substitute - instead it introduced different and more complicated user interface, removed some of the additional features which Windows Mail had and introduced another thing many people dislike - email grouping by accounts, rather than having everything in a single Inbox, Outbox etc. Except Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Essentials also contains a couple of other programs like Messenger, Movie Maker but most people were interested of course in Windows Live Mail. To complete their switch from Windows Vista, Microsoft replaced Windows Mail with downloadable program package called Windows Live Essentials which also had a program called Windows Live Mail inside the package. However, with the introduction of Windows 7, many people were once again surprised that Outlook Express and Windows Mail have been completely removed from the system. Also, as Windows Vista wasn't so popular operating system and received many critics, a lot of people didn't even use it so lack of Outlook Express and having Windows Mail instead wasn't such a problem at the time. Windows Mail missed some of the popular Outlook Express features, like for example Identities but more or less it was the same program. Microsoft decided to replace Outlook Express with a program called Windows Mail on Windows Vista. If you used Outlook Express on Windows XP you may have been surprised that on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows 11 it is no longer present.

Outlook Express on Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows 11 - Where is it?

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