

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.
