Advice on which Windows E-mail request to use

Hi, I'm an older person who needs to change my PC and I need help. I currently have Outlook Express 6 on a Windows XP platform and I converted to Windows 7. I'm looking for a new e-mail application of simple base, I can access and manage my various emails from PC and different places (probably what we call an application based on Web - not sure). I also need a synchronization so that no matter where I am in this world, all my email folders are updated and synchronized.  I would like the app is also free of ads, and I don't want to be connected to Facebook, Twitter etc.

Also, I need to be able to "convert" my current Outlook Express 6 for the new application emails.

I read a lot and I am all confused and frankly frustrated by the descriptions/features/differences(or lack of) between Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Hotmail, Hotmail, Live, Outlook .com and would appreciate greatly a few simple recommendations and Advisor answering my basic requirements.

Thank you

It seems that the proposed use of the webmail is the way forward for the future.

Your email in Outlook Express, you can export your emails and contacts to CSV files on your XP system, then import them into Windows Live Mail on Windows 7.  Outlook Express XP has been superceeded by Windows Mail in Vista and is just a slightly improved version of Microsoft Outlook Express.  Windows Live Mail is free email client only provided by MS for Windows 7, but it can be installed and run under XP, Vista or Windows 7.  It also works on Windows 8 for what it is worth.

Windows Live Mail is roughly the same as Outlook Express, but when you run it under Windows 7 (or 8), that the menu bar is replaced by the new Ribbons that think MS in its wisdom is better.  They don't seem to realize that most of us have other things to do than reinvent wheels fixing things that are not violated.  They do not have ask my opinion if!  :-)

There are many other e-mail programs, you can use with Windows 7.  I use Windows Live Mail, but if you're going to have Office, you can use Outlook.  There are also other e-mail clients 3rd part if you are so inclined, such as Thunderbird, Eudora, etc.  You can see a comparison of these on Wikipedia to

http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients

Good luck.

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