Microsoft Ties Windows Live Services to OS

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.'"

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Re:It's a technically awful thing to do

[EmbeddedJanitor]

This is not just a Win9x thing. It also impacts WinXP, and likely Vista (not that I'd admit to running Vista).

EXPLORER.EXE runs the desktop view and seems to share some DLLs etc with IE. If IE hangs in certain ways it seems to hang EXXPLORER.EXE too. THis can only be resolved by a reboot (which cannot be launced via software because EXPLORER.EXE is hung). The only solution seems to be a hard reboot.