When I open live mail I get Outlook, how do I get to live mail?

I have two live.com.au email addresses which I have been using via the one Microsoft login in Outlook. Outlook will no longer let me access one of the emails, and I also cannot create a new Microsoft account for that email. So I decided I would download Windows Live and go back to that. When I open Windows Live it shunts me straight to Outlook so I still cannot access my emails. This is utterly ridiculous, is it any wonder people buy Macs? I'm using Windows 8 if that is of any value and the email I'm having trouble with is quite possibly a POP account, but I can't be sure because I have absolutely no way of accessing it.