When I had to use windows 7 I got windows mail back and it worked well. I 
never could find anything else I could stand.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: mail programs in windows 7


> 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.
>