Microsoft Tuesday expanded the capabilities of its Windows Live ID service by adding support for single sign-on for its Windows Live services and making it possible for users to sign up for an ID from ...

Microsoft is looking into some reported problems with its Windows Live ID service, which supposedly showed some users the wrong accounts when they tried to access Hotmail and other services. According ...

Microsoft has been fleshing out the Windows Live development platform for almost a year now. One nagging piece has been missing, until this week, that is, was the Windows Live ID software development ...

Microsoft is making it simpler to log into online services and apps ahead of Windows 8, which could be revealed on 20 June. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, ...

Microsoft late Tuesday said it has cleared up what was a daylong outage and that all users have access again to Windows Live services that include Hotmail, Messenger, SkyDrive and Photo Gallery. The ...

Users of many Microsoft Windows Live services worldwide were hit by an outage on Tuesday that lasted most of the day before Microsoft managed to fix it. The issue affected the Windows Live ID log-in ...

The company is releasing some APIs as part of an ongoing effort to woo support for its Windows Live hosted services, particularly from small, Web-based firms In an effort to drum up support for its ...

Microsoft is killing the Windows Live brand it introduced six years ago. In a new post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft reveals that all its online services will simply have their own names: ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

So, am I the only one that gets problems like this? I just want to play GTA IV, which I paid for, and I need to be logged in to Windows live ID to save my progress. Now it seems I forgot my password, ...

Users can unify multiple sign-ons for Windows Live services, including e-mail, IMs, and blogs, under one ID and password, even from a mobile device Microsoft on Tuesday expanded the capabilities of ...