Microsoft to Drop Windows Live Branding with Windows 8
Windows Live to get a long-overdue clean up
Microsoft's perpetually confusing Windows Live branding is about to get a long-overdue clean up. Microsoft is doing away with the Windows Live brand, according to a May 2 post on the Building Windows 8 blog. The Windows Live Essentials name for the collection of Windows add-ons - including Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Live Mesh and Family Safety - is going away. Other Windows Live services which weren't part of Live Essentials - like Hotmail and SkyDrive - also are getting simpler names.
A bunch of the Windows Live services are going to be called "apps" with Windows 8. Microsoft made previews of a number of these apps available as part of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which it released in February. All of this prompts the question: What happens to current Windows users - those on Vista and Windows 7 - who are currently using the non-app/non-Windows 8 versions of these services? It seems they will continue to be supported but it's unclear how, when, and if they'll get new features and functionality.
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