I tried exporting a few old e-mails (Outlook Express) to my new laptop which came with the abysmal 'Windows Live Mail' installed - it is possible to do so.
But 'Windows Live Mail' was the most infuriating, unreliable, complicated application I'd ever had the misfortune to use. Just as Gates' geeks removed the simplicity of 'Microsoft Photo Editor' from MS Office and replaced it with a junk application called 'Microsoft Office Picture Manager' and now, worse still, 'Windows Live Photo Gallery', they have deleted the simplicity of Outlook Express....and expect you either to pay for Outlook or to use the abysmal 'Windows Live Mail'.
Fortunately I was able to restore OE. Then the next discovery - the spell checker only worked in French thanks to the changes the geeks had made tin Office 2007 rendering the spell checker unavailable to OE...
However, a small third party software patch from Australia fixed that for a very small price....
I've stayed with Windows XP SP3 as, although I have the 'upgrade' option, I'm simply not going to spend another few weeks trying to get used to a wholly pointless change.
Good luck with the migration! You're fortunate to have Win98 as at least you can use a USB stick to transfer your files. When I changed from Win95 to WinXP it took about a day of transfer time using a special data transfer cable...
