10 Facts About Windows Live

Windows Live is a discontinued brand name for a set of web services and software products developed by Microsoft as part of its software-as-a-service platform.

Microsoft announced that Windows 8 would see Windows Live apps included right out-of-the-box, and would include built-in synchronization technologies powered by OneDrive .

The Windows Live brand was phased out during August 2012, when Microsoft released Windows 8 to manufacturing.

Active Windows Live services remained active but were gradually renamed.

My Windows Live Phone is a free online companion service for Windows Live Phone mobile devices that provides users with a free mobile phone back-up solution by wirelessly synchronizing contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and OneNote notebooks with a password-protected online portal.

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Windows Live provides customised services specifically created for feature phones.

Windows Live Connect is built on standard web technologies such as OAuth 2.

All except Windows Live OneCare are freeware and published in a software suite called Windows Essentials .

Windows Live OneCare on the other hand, was a commercial consumers utility marketed with a software as a service licensing model.

Windows Live Butterfly awards program was a program whose members were given the benefit of new Microsoft software to test before the beta releases went public and they were in direct contact with the program managers for Windows Live products.