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Hi,

I felt compelled to reply to this question as well, this morning I downloaded and installed ms windows live essentials 2012 on my laptop that's running ms windows 8.1 / with media center edition. The ONLY reason I installed ms windows live mail was because of my desire to have ms hotmail / outlook to be set as my desired MAILTO protocol . Now what I'm realizing already that having the ms windows 'livemail' option installed / running is NOT giving me what I really wanted. What I REALLY wanted was to be able to select a mail program such as gmail when I'm using the mozilla firefox browser. Why does microsoft make it SO difficult to be able to choose a email service such as hotmail / outlook.com to handle the mailto: function. At least for me...with all of the MANY improvement's that have been made / added to the outlook.com interface, they SHOULD make it EASY to choose that client if ms windows user's want to use it !! Of course that's just MY opinion.

David