You can also take a look at Mozilla Thunderbird.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: mail programs in windows 7


> Windows live mail is built in to 7, and works okay, the ribbon bars are a
> different layout.  Office 2003 and above will work on windows 7.  I don't
> know what screen reader you will use, but the versions back a couple of
> years on most will work under windows 7.
> Think of ribbon bars, as two parallel menus, each choice has options that
> you tab through, right and left arrows are used to navigate through the 
> main
> choices.  Up and down arrows will switch between the two ribbon bars.
> That's my image of what is going on anyway.  You can import your settings
> and addresses from outlook express in to windows live mail.  They can then
> be exported to files, and imported in to windows live on the 7 machine, if
> that's the way you choose to go.