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Microsoft Windows Live Essentials 2012
The last version of the Windows Live Essentials software suite. You can no longer download Windows Live Essentials from Microsoft or use the web downloader.
Windows Live Essentials was a free software suite available for Windows, it included a photo gallery, video editor, email client, blogging word processor, OneDrive (an online storage client), and a messaging application. If you run the installer on Windows 7, you can install Family Safety, which adds parental controls features in Windows 7. Since this service is online connected, it probably doesn't work with web reports, as was touted as a headline feature. When it was still being supported and new versions were being released, it was feature-rich software suite.
Windows Live Essentials 2012 has:
- Photo Gallery
- Movie Maker
- Mail (support limited)
- Messenger (no longer functional)
- Writer (newer version available, note: Newer version no longer developed directly by Microsoft)
- OneDrive (newer version available)
- Family Safety (Windows 7 only)
You must be running Windows 7 or later to run Windows Live Essentials 2012. Note that some functionality, such as Messenger, no longer function.
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