Microsoft's Windows Live effort has been a bit of a confusing mishmash of products from the start. Was it merely a rebranding of existing products, such as MSN Messenger? Or was it simply a marketing ...

CNET Reviews has a series that gives individual coverage of some of the Windows Live components that Microsoft has released to the public. The last two additions to the series -- one for the Windows ...

In part one of our two-part series on Microsoft’s Windows Live, we looked at what you can expect from Windows Live Mail and the new Windows Messenger. This week we delve into three other services: ...

Microsoft has scored a big customer for its Windows Live online service. Lenovo announced today that it plans to make the Live.com portal the default home page and include the Windows Live Toolbar on ...

Within the next week, Microsoft plans to distribute to testers what is said to be the last build of Windows Vista before Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is distributed. Rumored to be number 5506, the new ...

Lucky ThinkPad buyers now get to play whack-a-mole with Windows Live, Microsoft's woebegone online services ploy. Lenovo announced that it made a deal with Gates & Co. to pre-load Live services on ...

Deal is the first Microsoft has been able to strike with a manufacturer to have Windows Live pre-loaded onto PCs In a modest win for Microsoft’s struggling online services business, Microsoft said ...

All Lenovo computers worldwide will soon come bundled with Microsoft's Windows Live software, the companies announced Wednesday. By April, the Windows Live Search portal will be the default Web search ...

Microsoft announced that it has purchased Onfolio, a maker of online information and content sharing tools, whose technology the software giant has already integrated into the latest version of its ...

The beta of Microsoft's latest update of its free Windows Live Essentials line of online applications -- which Microsoft calls Wave 4 -- was recently released to reviewers and beta testers; the final ...

— -- As users continue to grouse about Windows Vista nearly two years after its introduction, Microsoft appears relieved to turn its public focus on the next release of its flagship operating ...