In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...

Microsoft has released a beta of Windows Live Messenger, the next version of its MSN Messenger instant messaging service, it announced Tuesday. The software is available for the public to download ...

The announcement comes on the heels of Skype saying last week it will start supporting conversations among groups as large as 100 users and AOL saying it is moving more aggressively into the voice ...

Still wondering what to get that Microsoft enthusiast for the holidays? Microsoft’s Windows Live team has an idea – an invitation to a limited beta of Microsoft’s next-generation IM client, Windows ...

Although the beta test of Live Messenger, Microsoft's next generation MSN Messenger client, has been restricted to a limited number of pre-selected users, each tester is given a small number of beta ...

The new Windows Live Essentials beta will be available for public testing starting Thursday, according to Microsoft. A collection of free Web-oriented applications and services for Windows Vista and ...

In case you were one of the many Windows Live Messenger users affected by the recent outages of Microsoft's consumer IM service earlier this week, here's an update on what happened. On Thursday ...

Microsoft has launched a public beta of Windows Live Messenger, an instant-messaging program that features international PC-to-telephone calls with video capability. As part of the beta, Uniden and ...