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Microsoft Ties Windows Live Services to OS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the adoption-by-ramrod dept.

narramissic writes "Microsoft is tying its Windows Live services directly to Vista — a move that should sound vaguely familiar, as it is precisely what the company did to make IE ubiquitous among Internet users. 'A new unified installer for Windows Live services will help users download Wednesday's updates of photo-sharing, mail, instant messaging, online safety and other services, the company said on its Windows Live Wire blog. The new installer also will automatically update those services on Windows Vista and XP going forward.'"

2 of 248 comments (clear)

  1. Re:these tools are nice by ScrewMaster · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Makes life easier and faster. In the end isn't that what software should strive to do?

    It's less a matter of what software should strive to do, as it is what Microsoft is striving to do to us with it.

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    The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  2. Re:Well in messenger's defense by ady1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nonsense. MSN messenger was/is/will be a half baked product with no original or better implemented feature set whatsoever. Even at this point, it isn't as functional as ICQ was back in 1999. Personally I think that the thing which killed ICQ was the AOL acquisition of it rather than MSN messenger. It got useless after AOL acquired it turned it into an ad platform of theirs and made the footprint ridiculously heavy.