Not quite.

Windows Live Mail is not built into Win 7.  Win 7 comes without a mail 
client.

The newer versions of Windows Live have a ribbon menu, as Howard mentions. 
If you can find WLM 2009 version, I think it was version 11 or 12, it 
doesn't have ribbons.

Thunderbird mail also works in Win 7, and you can do a registry hack to use 
Windows Mail (the old Vista email client that was the immediate successor of 
Outlook Express).  In  the past, there have been reports of the SP1 update 
to Windows 7 breaking if that registry hack was in effect.

Steve
----- 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.