Windows LIVE! Programs

 

For those of you that haven’t tried some of the Windows LIVE! programs, I would recommend you do just that.  Especially if you are running VISTA in any form.

The reason is simple.

When they built Vista, the mail program that comes with it is severely lacking in what it will support.  Some of us that got used to running Outlook Express are finding it lacks support for Internet Mail.  Which means you must go to the Internet to look at it.  Some of us would rather look at it in a program on our own computers that might have different capabilities. Windows LIVE! Mail fixes this problem and allows you to pull your mail from the Internet once again.  (Don’t ask me why Microsoft did this, but it was a very dumb move forcing you to download an additional program to accomplish this.)

I’m using Windows LIVE! Writer to write this blog and the other one I have. It’s very easy to use and has a quick set-up as long as you know where your blogs are and the login information.

Both LIVE! Mail and LIVE! Writer come with spell checkers. Something even Outlook Express didn’t come with.

Of course Windows LIVE! Messenger is available from this same site and it replaces both the original Windows Messenger and the MSN Messenger.

These are at least 3 of the programs I would recommend you download.

They can be downloaded from:  http://get.live.com