Windows 7 has moved many tools out of the OS and into a free download. How do they measure up? Let me say at the outset: I never liked Outlook Express. Never. The feature difference between Outlook ...

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 ...

When I try to install it I get a message saying I need to install Windows Platform Update (I use Vista SP2) and get a link to this page where it has this to say: How to obtain the Platform Updates for ...

Live Mesh users, read the Windows Essentials 2012 fine print. Microsoft is doing what some had feared in latest services bundle -- replacing it with SkyDrive, which still doesn't offer the same set of ...

Although Microsoft announced the beta for its new-and-improved Windows Live services on December 2, it took Redmond a few more weeks to make good on that announcement. As of yesterday, the beta was ...

After moving the Wave 3 version of Windows Live Essentials out of beta last month, Microsoft has now updated specific applications in the suite. Windows Live Essentials, which refers to the suite of ...

Microsoft has delivered a refreshed beta build of its Windows Live Essentials services and has taken another step forward toward rebranding Live Search. On December 15, Microsoft made available to the ...

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LAS VEGAS – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at the beginning of the annual International CES expo and announced that the company would release the beta version of it upcoming Windows 7 ...