Windows Live Quick Applications offer customizable out-of-the box solutions for specific Web scenarios. Each Quick App is built on Windows Live services and is offered as a source code download you can use right away. e-Commerce: Retail Retail uses Silverlight 2 and Silverlight Streaming to power an...

I'm guessing that many of you have attempted to download the latest version of Windows Live Messenger or other Windows Live Software but have been prompted with the following error: " Sorry, Windows Live programs cannot be installed on Windows Server, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, or...

Hello Windows Live Messenger beta testers! This is a reminder that the Messenger v9.0 Beta program will close TODAY. Thanks again to everyone for all of your time and energy during this beta testing period. Your feedback has been super helpful to us as we planned the next version of Messenger, and we...

As of 30 June, large PC makers will no longer be able to sell Windows XP-based PCs on mainstream notebooks and desktops. Retailers will also have only until their current supply is exhausted to sell boxed copies of the operating system. Despite a brief "Save XP" movement (and continued criticism...

Microsoft seems like the most unlikely company to ship products that really support Enterprise 2.0. After all, the company is the poster child for packaged software. But everything the company is saying here in Orlando at TechEd 2008 is consistent with the idea that IT has to support the linchpins of...

At Apple’s annual WWDC event, held today, Steve Jobs announced a new software+services product: MobileMe . Offering to synchronise emails, contact, and calendar data, the new service seems just like Windows Live. Except cooler (check out the screenshots) and also coming in at a fairly hefty $99 a year...

In the next two weeks, we will be shutting down the Windows Live for TV service that was released in beta in January 2007. The service which also went by the name Orbit, was a small developer focused beta targeted to 2,000 users and primarily set up to give our passionate Windows Live and Windows Vista...

With electricity prices continuing to skyrocket and processors getting ever hungrier for power, it was only a matter of time beforeMicrosoft (NSDQ: MSFT) chimed in with claims that its latest software can cut energy bills. A Microsoft white paper released this week asserts that Windows Server 2008 can...

Today, the Windows Home Server Team has announced the availability of the Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Release Candidate for download on Microsoft Connect. You can read Charlie Kindel's post announcing today's release on the Windows Home Server Team Blog. Microsoft Connect: Windows Home Server...

The next version of Windows SteadyState has been released. Windows® SteadyState™ is now available. (Windows SteadyState was formerly known as Microsoft® Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP.) Whether you manage computers in a school computer lab or an Internet café, a library, or even in your home...