If you are still using Windows Live Mail for some reason, Microsoft will not start your upgrade until June 30, 2016, so you have some time to plan for the change.
But it’s been deprecated and is no longer being updated, and could disappear from the web at any time.
Windows Live Mail is still available for free as part of the Windows Live Essentialspackage. Outlook Connector exists to use Windows Live Hotmail, Contacts and Calendar with this program. The client itself costs around 90 (Price from Newegg page) though it can be gotten as part of an Office bundle. Microsoft Office Outlook - Microsoft client for email, contacts, calendar and a couple other functions. (The Office 365 subscription includes Outlook 2016, of course.) Windows Live Calendar - Microsoft online free calendar service. Those who qualify will receive an email with information on redeeming this offer. Windows 7 users advised to “upgrade to a newer version of Windows to enjoy the Mail app and the other benefits.” Or, if you don’t wish to do that, you can simply access on the web, and Microsoft will provide you with a free year of Office 365 Personal. The Windows 10 version of this app is actually pretty decent, but the version in Windows 8.x is terrible. Microsoft, of course, recommends the Mail app that is built into Windows. “This means the time has come for you to upgrade to a new email application.” “You will not be able to send or receive email from Windows Live Mail 2012 after your account is upgraded ,” Soltero adds. But because the new experience is built on top of a new technical foundation that is based on Office 365, those using Windows Live Mail 2012 to access their email are out of luck: Windows Live Mail works fine with the Hotmail-based infrastructure that previously used. “So far we’ve upgraded more than 175 million accounts and each week millions more people are using the new to collaborate effortlessly, focus on what matters and get more done.” “Earlier this year we introduced a new and began rolling out an exciting new email and calendar experience to users worldwide,” Microsoft corporate vice president Javier Soltero writes. If you could enlighten me as to what these two programs are doing differently from emClient, that would be very much appreciated.Microsoft today alerted customers that the ongoing migration to the new comes with a hidden cost: You will no longer be able to use Windows Live Mail 2012 to access the service. eMClient is much prettier than Windows Live Calendar Gadget, and more functional. I’m looking for something on Windows with similar functionality.
This is bi-directional I can read and update calendar events. At that point only calendar events (not email or contacts) are synced. Windows Live Events was an online service by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live range of services that enabled users in Windows Live Spaces to share and plan different types of Events happening around them while collaborating with other services such as Windows Live Hotmail Calendar and Windows Live Spaces.
On iOS, I can provide my user name and password and select only calendar. What is the Windows Live Calendar Gadget doing? Is this CalDav or some other protocol? In the case of this gadget, this provides me a read only view into the calendar. The description provides for this URL is ‘Import into other calendar applications (ICS)’. For this program, I provide my user name, password, and a https url that ends in calendar.ics. But I’m confused then what a few other clients are doing to get calendar only information. I understand that may not suppport CalDAV.