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Article: Microsoft plans big push for software.(Wire Business)(The company is calling the package a new, free upgrade for Windows software users)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2007
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Byline: Jessica Mintz The Associated Press
SEATTLE - After a trickle of updates and "betas" bearing the Windows Live moniker, Microsoft Corp. is ready to start promoting its official package of free desktop programs for e-mail, instant messaging, blogging and sharing photos.
The programs are "essentially a free upgrade for Windows," said Brian Hall, general manager of Windows Live at Microsoft.
The package includes Windows Live Mail, which can grab messages from multiple free Web-based e-mail accounts, including Microsoft's Hotmail, Google Inc.'s Gmail and AOL e-mail. The new package, which Microsoft formally announced Tuesday, allows PC users ...