Microsoft today released the Wave 4 beta of Windows Live Essentials. The Essentials are Microsoft's Windows Live client applications, designed to complement both Windows itself and the company's ...

Microsoft's anti-trust woes shook up Windows, pulling out all those little applications that sat in the Start menu and rarely got used. Off went Windows Mail, Movie Maker, the Gallery and Messenger ...

Microsoft today has released Windows Live Essentials 2011 for download. The updated suite includes Messenger, Photo Galley, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, Family Safety, Live Mesh, Messenger Companion, ...

Every year or so Microsoft updates the suite of programs and Web services it calls Windows Live Essentials, and the beta version of Wave 4 is now available. You can think of Windows Live Essentials as ...

Microsoft released Windows Live Essentials 2011 yesterday afternoon. While the Windows Live software package is focused on PC functionality and Windows 7 integration, there is a growing connection to ...

"Today, we announced the launch of an updated version of Windows Live Family Safety," a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. "Based on customer feedback, the newest version of Family Safety features ...

Microsoft is preparing to deliver a second beta of the next version of its Windows Live Essentials suite next week. That's the word from blogger Francisco Martin Garcia, who posted about the coming ...

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 ...

Windows: Microsoft today released Windows Live Essentials 2011, a free suite of solid desktop applications ranging from Messenger and Photo Gallery to Movie Maker and Mail. In all, Windows Live ...

Windows Live Essentials has been part of most Windows Users standard installation for many years now. This familiar and ‘essentials’ set of applications does much to make Windows come to life as a ...

Yesterday, Microsoft dropped the new Windows Live Essentials beta, adding tons of new publishing and web service options to their suite of consumer desktop applications. Here's a look what's changed ...