Windows Live Essentials 2009 and Windows Live Essentials 2011 are discontinued and are no longer available for download. I have tried downloading Windows essentials but didn't work. Windows Live mail 2009 is not supported in Windows 10 and is currently discontinued. Windows 8 includes a Modern app for viewing and managing your SkyDrive files.Update: As of January 10, 2017, Windows Essentials 2012 and all other versions of Windows essentials is no longer supported on Windows 10, and is unavailable for download.

SkyDrive: SkyDrive takes the place of Windows Live Mesh as Microsoft’s new online file storage service.It can view photos on your PC or SkyDrive, import photos from a camera, and access online photo services like Flickr or Facebook. Photos: The Photos application takes the place of the Windows Live Photo Gallery.It takes the place of Windows Live Messenger.

Messaging: The messaging application works with Microsoft’s Messenger and Facebook.In addition to being an address book, it can connect to services like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to bring together your contacts in one place. People: Windows Live Mail’s address book is now the People application.It can sync with the calendars linked to your Microsoft account, Google Calendar, and other calendar services. Calendar: Windows Live Mail included integrated calendar support, but calendaring is now available in a separate application.Mail: Microsoft’s Mail application connects to, Hotmail, Gmail, Exchange, and IMAP accounts.You'll find the following replacements pre-installed on Windows 8: Microsoft wants the pre-installed Windows 8 apps to take the place of the older, desktop-based Windows Live applications. They’re now being integrated back into Windows 8 by default.

Microsoft has come full-circle – after including many of the Windows Live Essentials apps in Windows Vista, they were removed in Windows 7 and available as a separate installer so that Windows 7 could be a more lightweight, minimal operating system.

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