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 ...

Microsoft released Windows Live Essentials 2011, a set of free downloadable applications tied to Windows 7 and Windows Vista that the company said would allow users to organize their e-mail, ...

Microsoft unveiled a major refresh of the Windows Live Essentials suite. The video overview focuses primarily on the improved photo editing, management, and sharing features--which do seem fairly ...

With the launch of its first formal reseller program for Google Apps Premier Edition, Google is now battling Microsoft directly in the channel with a full cloud computing productivity suite. Here's a ...

Movie Maker–the Microsoft movie-editing application that the company has yanked out of Windows 7 and bundled into the suite known as Windows Live Essentials–is out in a new version today. LiveSide.net ...

Microsoft clearly hopes that Windows XP would simply go away. And the company is not just sitting idly by, waiting for that to happen; it’s doing its best to kill it. The next version of the free ...

At the Mix08 conference Microsoft will discuss Live technologies such as APIs for messaging and sharing contacts, as well as new Atom services Microsoft is expected to discuss several technologies ...