I received a cryptic email from Outlook.com support on Dec. 11. The opening paragraph reads as follows:

"In a few weeks, we will be making some changes to our email services that might impact your @outlook.com, @hotmail, @live, or @msn email account. Those changes will prevent your email from being delivered to the Windows Live Mail 2012 application you use. "

I went to the update site:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/getstarted-set-up-email

and downloaded the update.  The file is d-mail.msp.

I installed this file. Live mail crashed. I uninstalled Live Mail and reinstalled it using the original install file wlsetup-web.exe and the program then worked  correctly.

I then installed some additional windows updates, restarted, ran d-mail.msp again. Again Live Mail crashed. Again I uninstalled it and re-installed using wlsetup-web.exe. and it now works perfectly.

I am running windows 10 professional on my desktop and two other computers which I support,  and  Win10 Home on my tablet. I have  not experienced any problems with the Live Mail Desktop client on any of these machines.

I am totally baffled.

Is MS going to pull support from the Windows Essentials 2012 Live Mail Client and force us to use the native Win10 mail app?

If they are NOT going to pull the desktop client and I need the update, why does it crash a program which heretofore has worked perfectly?

Or is this update only for people running Pre-Windows 10 OS's?

I hope someone can explain what's going on.