Lots of its discontinued apps are still loved and sought by users. Microsoft is fairly notorious for discontinuing some of its more loved/successful apps in favor of new, less stable ones. Some fade into obscurity, some become obsolete, some are rebranded, while others are discontinued in favor of other apps. Unlike email services, email clients tend to come and go fairly often. Gmail is easily the most popular service at present and there are lots of smaller email services that exist to fill a certain niche. This free update is now available here and is dubbed "Update for Windows Live Essentials Mail 2012" (KB 3093594).Email has been around for years and over those years, the number of popular email services hasn’t changed much. These applications are still actively being developed, so it might be a smart choice to move over, since the support for Live Mail will probably end soon.
Microsoft does recommend that any users of the Live Mail application switch over to the new Mail application that has been built-in to Windows 8 and Windows 10.
However, since the application still has quite a few users, Microsoft has provided an update that will prolong the life of the mail application and allow it to receive mails once again. The latest major update for the pack dates back to 2012 and still uses the Live branding that Microsoft abandoned in the same year.Īll of these apps are still available for download, but one of these apps, Live Mail, will soon stop working without the installation of a new required update.īecause of underlying updates on the Microsoft mail platforms (Outlook/Hotmail), Live Mail will lose the ability to receive emails. The Microsoft Essentials pack, consisting of Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Live Writer (which is now available as an open source project) and Live Mail, has been in a state of limbo for quite a while now.
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