It is the predecessor of Windows Family Safety in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Parental Controls is a free set of features available on Windows 7 and Vista. Windows Live Writer was completely discontinued in January 2017. An open-source fork of Windows Live Writer was released as Open Live Writer on December 9, 2015.

Windows Live Writer is a discontinued desktop blog-publishing app that was created by Microsoft and distributed as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite of apps. It provided the ability to create and edit videos and to publish them on OneDrive. Windows Movie Maker, which is known as Windows Live Movie Maker for the 20 releases, is a discontinued video editing software program by Microsoft. It’s a part of the Windows Essentials software suite. Windows Photo Gallery, formerly called Windows Live Photo Gallery, is a discontinued image organizer, photo editor, and photo sharing program. Windows Live Mail is the successor to Windows Mail in Windows Vista, which was the successor to Outlook Express in Windows XP and Windows 98. Windows Live Mail is a free email client from Microsoft and it was formally called Windows Live Mail Desktop, code-named Elroy. It connected to the Microsoft Messenger service whereas also having (as of the final version) compatibility with Yahoo! Messenger and Facebook Messenger. Windows Live Messenger, formerly known as MSN Messenger or just MSN, is a cross-platform instant messaging client developed by Microsoft. The last edition of Windows Essentials contains the below tools. Read More Windows Essentials Applications

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