• Remember Windows Live? Forget it.

  Microsoft offers a range of services such as email and messaging under the banner of Windows Live, but that is about to end, shifting instead to a tight integration with Windows 8 that will drop the Live name and become an invisible part of Windows 8.

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  Telstra’s BigPond email to switch over to Windows Live

  Telstra (ASX: TEL) has announced that its 4.2 million BigPond email accounts will transfer to Microsoft’s Windows Live service later this year.

• Microsoft gets green light on Skype bid

  The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will allow software giant Microsoft Corporation to proceed with its largest deal ever, a $US8.5 billion ($A8.09 billion) bid for web chat and call service Skype.

• Telstra considering shift to Windows Live

  Australia's biggest telco Telstra is considering dumping the email, blogging, photos and online storage platforms used by customers of its BigPond internet service provider division and migrating customers to Microsoft's Windows Live platform.

• Microsoft Windows Live refresh streamlines communication

  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 impressive. But, small and medium business customers will be much more impressed with the expanded features and functionality of Windows Live Mail.

• A guide to online data syncing services

  Remember the early days of PDAs? They revolutionized the concept of a planner by combining calendars, contacts and notes into a compact, easy-to-carry device that could be connected to and synced with your computer.

• Microsoft 'Bing' would bring new life to old domain

  Microsoft's planning to relaunch its Live search engine under the name "Bing," a recent report suggests.

Whitepapers about Windows Live

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  Best Practices for Preparing for SharePoint Migrations

  This paper focuses on some of the most common platforms that content can be moved from: Windows Server file shares, Exchange public folders, and previous versions of SharePoint. However, the strategies discussed can also be applied to content from other sources, such as Documentum, Novell or UNIX file shares, Notes databases, and web sites.