Hotmail email and Windows instant messaging under the "Live" umbrella. In 2012, Microsoft began dropping the Live brand and moved the remaining applications into the Windows Essentials suite.

Windows Live Mail, or simply Mail starting with Windows 8, is a client mail program for installation on the desktop. "Windows Live Hotmail" was Microsoft's Web-based email offering before it was ...

In Windows 8 and 10, the same bug has now been found to potentially leak the user’s Microsoft Live account login and (hashed) password information, which is also used to access OneDrive ...

Microsoft is previewing live translation on Intel and AMD-based Copilot Plus PCs. The feature is rolling out now to Windows 11 Insiders in the Dev Channel, allowing users to translate audio from over ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Windows Live Sign-in Assistant. The Windows Live Sign-in Assistant is a helper add-on for Internet Explorer and Windows Live Messenger that allows users to save ...

Windows 11 may get a slightly detached “Floating Widgets” panel, perhaps reintroducing Live Tiles in a different avatar. The experimental feature is present in the latest test versions of ...

Follow our Verizon outage live blog for more. Since this issue spans affects multiple Microsoft services, some users are now ...