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Windows Essentials (formerly known as Windows Live Essentials and Windows Live Installer) is a set of free Microsoft programs. First released on August 25, 2006, the set consists of Windows Live Mail, an email program, Photo Gallery, an image viewer, Movie Maker, a movie making app, Windows Live Writer, OneDrive, Family Safety, and, formerly, Windows Live Messengerl, an instant messaging client discontinued since 2013. Family Safety is only for Windows 7.[1] Made to perfectly blend together, as well as with Microsoft web-based services, [2][3] Windows Essentials programs are compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and formerly Windows XP and Windows Vista.[1]
External Links
http://windows.microsoft.com/essentials
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Windows Essentials 2012 Release Notes. Windows portal. Microsoft. Retrieved on 10 April 2013.
- ↑ Foley, Mary Jo (5 August 2006). Microsoft Seeks Testers for Windows Live Essentials. eWeek's Microsoft Watch. Ziff Davis Enterprise. Retrieved on April 20, 2012.
- ↑ Thurrott, Paul (6 October 2010). Making Sense of Windows Live Wave 3, Part 1: How We Got Here. Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows. Retrieved on April 20, 2012.