Windows Contacts

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Windows Contacts

Contacts folder inside Windows Explorer in Windows 11, showing example contacts.
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Predecessor	Windows Address Book
Successor	People
Website	windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/de-DE/Help/26ce0593-f146-454e-92a2-5fe1107da4b01031.mspx

Windows Contacts is a contact manager that is included in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows 11. It replaced but retains most of the functionality of Windows Address Book and worked with Windows Live Mail and the Vista version of Windows Mail.

Windows Contacts uses an XML-based schema format. Each contact appears as an individual .contact file, in which custom information including pictures can be stored. Windows Contacts features extensibility APIs for integration with other applications and for storing custom information. The legacy *.wab format and the open standards *.vcf (vCard) and *.csv (CSV) are also supported.