Where the web and the desktop meet: Microsoft's Windows live.(PRODUCT WATCH)

Online Reporter, The,  November, 2007  

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Has anyone asked whether Microsoft intends to join Google's Open Handset Alliance and port its new Windows Live Web-based software to it? It would be a major shock if Microsoft did. After all, the software giant has spent half a decade or more developing and hawking Windows Mobile, its own operating system for mobile devices.

Microsoft this week launched a completed version of its online software called Windows Live. It's free, and seemingly aimed more at corporates than consumers. It works, at this point at least, only on Windows PCs.

Windows Live, released in a test version in ...

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