On 23 Jan 2011, Ken Blake wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

As far as I'm concerned, they didn't suddenly decide to screw up
Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Mail started out screwed up from
the very beginning. I never liked it.

WLM (previous to this latest cock-up) seemed to me to be about as good
or bad as WM or Outlook Express. I never used any of them regularly, so
I could easily have missed some of OE's hidden charms.