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Most services kept their name, but with the removal of 'Windows Live' in front of them. The Windows Live brand was phased out during August 2012 coinciding with the RTM of Windows 8. Another 'Live' service, Office Live, was converged into Windows Live during the Wave 4 update, when Microsoft merged Office Live into the Windows Live team in January 2009.

īesides Windows Live, which is mainly aimed at individuals, there are some other Web properties from Microsoft that are branded as ' Live': Xbox LIVE multiplayer gaming and content delivery system for Xbox and Xbox 360, and the Games for Windows - LIVE multiplayer gaming service for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft announced that Windows 8 will see Windows Live apps included right out of the box, and will include built-in synchronization technologies powered by SkyDrive.

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Windows Vista provides a link in its user interface to download Windows Live Messenger, and Windows 7 saw the removal of applications such as Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker and replaced with the Windows Essentials suite, a software package that allows the downloading and installation of similar offerings from Windows Live. Microsoft said that Windows Live 'is a way to extend the Windows user experience'. There are three ways in which Windows Live services are offered: Windows Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also client-side binary applications that require installation. In April 2013, the website was closed down.

Windows Live was the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft part of their software plus services platform.

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