What this means is, if you install Windows Live Mail 2011 it can be configured to work with any e-mail service that offers one or more of the following three types of connection, namely IMAP or POP3 or DeltaSync.Īlmost every email service in the world offers IMAP, so the best option is usually to set up Windows Live Mail to use IMAP.

If you're using Windows 10, you can download an old official copy of Windows Live Essentials (which includes Windows Movie Maker) from an archived version of Microsoft's website. It works fine on all the later versions of Windows including Windows. Downloading Windows Movie Maker 1 Download the Windows Live Essentials setup file. Windows Live Mail 2011 uses DeltaSync, the protocol which many e-mail services use, so is a better choice (from the point of view of compatibilty) than Windows Live Mail 2012, which uses Exchange ActiveSync, which only Microsoft services use.īoth Windows Live Mail 2011 and Windows Live Mail 2012 support IMAP and POP3, so any account which supports use of either of those (ubiquitous) protocols can be used with either WLM 2011 or WLM 2012, including non-Microsoft e-mail services. To download and use this archived Windows Live Essentials Suite 2012, you need at least Windows 7 on your machine. Includes Windows Live Mail 2011: this version uses DeltaSync (not Exchange ActiveSync), for wider compatibility with non-Microsoft email services including Gmail or any other service based on DeltaSync.

Windows Live Essentials 2011, off-line installer.

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