![]() Windows 8 includes a Modern app for viewing and managing your SkyDrive files. SkyDrive: SkyDrive takes the place of Windows Live Mesh as Microsoft’s new online file storage service.It can view photos on your PC or SkyDrive, import photos from a camera, and access online photo services like Flickr or Facebook. Windows Live Essentials included several programs, most notably Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, Mail, Messenger, Writer, and SkyDrive (OneDrive). Photos: The Photos application takes the place of the Windows Live Photo Gallery. Microsoft ended support for Windows Essentials 2012 in 2017 and removed all downloads of Windows Essentials and individual programs from its web properties.It takes the place of Windows Live Messenger. Messaging: The messaging application works with Microsoft’s Messenger and Facebook. ![]() In addition to being an address book, it can connect to services like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to bring together your contacts in one place. ![]() People: Windows Live Mail’s address book is now the People application.It can sync with the calendars linked to your Microsoft account, Google Calendar, and other calendar services. Calendar: Windows Live Mail included integrated calendar support, but calendaring is now available in a separate application.Mail: Microsoft’s Mail application connects to, Hotmail, Gmail, Exchange, and IMAP accounts.You'll find the following replacements pre-installed on Windows 8: Microsoft wants the pre-installed Windows 8 apps to take the place of the older, desktop-based Windows Live applications. They’re now being integrated back into Windows 8 by default. The installer will open up the menu shown in the screenshot below, and you’ll then be able to pick and choose which programs you want to download and install. Microsoft has come full-circle – after including many of the Windows Live Essentials apps in Windows Vista, they were removed in Windows 7 and available as a separate installer so that Windows 7 could be a more lightweight, minimal operating system. The site will have you download a 1.2 MB file called wlsetup-webc.exe, which is the installer.
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