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 ...

The new Windows Live Essentials beta will be available for public testing starting Thursday, according to Microsoft. A collection of free Web-oriented applications and services for Windows Vista and ...

Microsoft’s Windows Live Essentials 2011, is ready for prime time. Microsoft announced Thursday it’s consumer focused suite of free applications, has moved from testing mode (beta) to the final ...

It's been three years since Microsoft last released a public beta of its Windows Live Essentials suite. (So much for more rapid services releases.) But on June 3 (just after 12 midnight EST), the ...

If you encounter a problem in opening Windows Live Mail on your Windows 7 business computer, some critical program files might be corrupted. While Windows Live Mail doesn't have its own repair feature ...

Live Mesh users, read the Windows Essentials 2012 fine print. Microsoft is doing what some had feared in latest services bundle -- replacing it with SkyDrive, which still doesn't offer the same set of ...

Microsoft pushed out a new build of the Wave 4 release of its Live Essentials this week. If you're already using the beta, you'll be able to update using Windows Update. Otherwise you'll need to ...

(1) See Windows Server Essentials. (2) A suite of free Windows desktop applications from Microsoft. Essentials includes email and calendar (Mail), a photo organizer and editor (Photo Gallery), video ...

Windows Live Mail forms part of Windows Live Essentials, and is a replacement for Microsoft Outlook on the Windows 7 operating system. This software allows you to enable read receipts for your emails ...

When I try to install it I get a message saying I need to install Windows Platform Update (I use Vista SP2) and get a link to this page where it has this to say: How to obtain the Platform Updates for ...

An earlier family of free desktop and Web-based applications from Microsoft, most of which were accessed from a personalized home page or browser toolbar. Launched in 2005, Microsoft integrated and ...