If you’re looking for an excellent, free mail client, you’ll do well to install Windows Live Mail 2011. This newest version of Microsoft’s free e-mail client has been significantly upgraded over the ...

With this version of Windows Live Mail, recently installed automatically through updates, it will not allow me to forward pages or links to pages as before. I have never had problems with this in ...

Microsoft’s Windows Live Essentials 2011, is ready for prime time. Microsoft announced Thursday it’s consumer focused suite of free applications, has moved from testing mode (beta) to the final ...

CNET Reviews has a series that gives individual coverage of some of the Windows Live components that Microsoft has released to the public. The last two additions to the series -- one for the Windows ...

What is the preferred way to get my Google Contacts synced with Live Mail 2011? I actually mean sync, not import (i.e. csv, etc), because my phone is set to sync with Google (it's a webOS device), and ...

Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail e-mail service suffered a sweeping outage over the weekend, leaving some users with empty inboxes and missing data, including photos and other content. Microsoft did ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Although it has taken Microsoft five years to develop the ...

Windows 7 has moved many tools out of the OS and into a free download. How do they measure up? Let me say at the outset: I never liked Outlook Express. Never. The feature difference between Outlook ...

It's been three years since Microsoft last released a public beta of its Windows Live Essentials suite. (So much for more rapid services releases.) But on June 3 (just after 12 midnight EST), the ...

(1) See Windows Server Essentials. (2) A suite of free Windows desktop applications from Microsoft. Essentials includes email and calendar (Mail), a photo organizer and editor (Photo Gallery), video ...