For Email, just download for free, install and start using Thunderbird from the Mozilla Foundation.
It’s every bit as good or better than anything from Microsoft.
You can also use Mozilla’s Firefox for your Internet browswer instead of IExplorer as well; if you want.
Both are free, stable, robust and frequently updated.
Thunderbird supports whatever your Email provider supports, and many of the settings can be customized to suit you.
Got win 7, Chrome and Firefox, still not as happy as I was with XP and IE ten years ago, it’s all been backwards progress.