Microsoft merging Windows Live and Office Live?
WinInfo | at | by Mike
ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley was the first to report that Microsoft plans to merge its Windows Live and Office Live services as part of a coming "Wave 4" release of its online services. (Wave 3 is just about completed with the recent release of Windows Live Essentials and Windows Live services Wave 3.) This combined set of services (hopefully just called Microsoft LIVE or similar) will happen around the same time as Office 14, which is currently slated for a late 2008/early 2009 release. And yes, Microsoft has confirmed it: "To simplify and improve the customer experience around its Live services, Microsoft made the decision to converge Windows Live and Office Live into an integrated set of services at one single destination," the company notes. Sounds like a plan.