Windows 8 introduced a new built-in email client called Mail. Although the underlying code has changed over the years, the user interface of all these products has a family resemblance. This replaced Outlook Express, and that evolved from Microsoft Mail and News, which was bundled with Internet Explorer 3 in 1996.
It was first released in 2007, replacing Windows Mail which was released with Vista in 2006.
Operating systems generally come with a built-in mail client, and Windows Live Mail is in effect the official free email client for Windows 7. You PC is getting old though, so you buy a new PC running Windows 10, and want to transfer your email account, contacts and old messages to the new PC. Scenario: you are using Windows 7 and for email, Windows Live Mail, Microsoft’s free email application.