Is windows live mail dead?

[copas]

I have been using windows live mail for a long time.
Will I be forced to learn another?
Mine won't work all of a sudden. Help!

Copas

[Geek-9pm]

Well, I think mine still works. In fact our family has two accounts. But MS has combined some services and it may look different. Notices the attachment.
I tried to sign in to www.live.com and it decided to log me into the Hotmail account. (attachment below.)


[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]

[copas]

Mine started working; but it may be spoofing me. I open my mail with a quick launch and when it wouldn't open the first time I opened a copy of yahoo mail so I may have conmfused myself.
Now when it opens it looks like my old Windows mail.
Don't pay too much attention to me; i'm easily conmfused...
Cheers,
Copas

[Geek-9pm]

Don't pay too much attention to me; i'm easily conmfused...

Me too! 

[strollin]

The Windows Live Mail client will continue to work with OTHER email services but not with Outlook.com (Hotmail) because Outlook.com will stop supporting the DeltaSync protocol that WLM uses to communicate with it.  Even then, you can change WLM to access Outlook.com via IMAP and it will work then.

I am still using WLM 2012 to access my Hotmail account and everything is still working but I suppose it's only a matter of time before it stops working.  Once it stops working, I will probably switch to Thunderbird as my email client.