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OneCare and Morro: New Direction, or Fail?
Microsoft announced today that after June 30, 2009, Windows Live OneCare will be shut down, and that Microsoft is working on a new, free, small footprint anti-virus solution code-named “Morro”.  Ina Fried at CNET News and others have been playing this as somewhat of a bold move ...
Microsoft takes control of Kumo.com domain – watch out for the Live Search rebrand
Microsoft takes control of Kumo.com domain – watch out for the Live Search rebrand
liveside.net — A few months ago Mary Jo Foley got a tip about some new brand names that were... being considered for Live Search. One of these, Kumo, jumped out at us due to the sheer scale of TLDs that had been acquired during 2008, as well as the corporate owner ... (more) Microsoft takes control of Kumo.com domain – watch out ...
 		Poll: How would you rebrand Live Search? | All about Microsoft
Poll: How would you rebrand Live Search? | All about Microsoft
blogs.zdnet.com — August 1st, 2008 Poll: How would you rebrand Live Search? Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 8:00... am Categories: Corporate strategy , Search , Yahoo Tags: Microsoft Live Search , Microsoft Corp. , Hook.com , Branding , Marketing , Mary Jo Foley Will Microsoft ... (more) Poll: How would you rebrand Live Search? | All about ...
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Still more questions than answers about Microsoft Morro
All about Microsoft — ... product — has spawned a bunch of new questions among customers, partners and industry watchers. While Windows Live OneCare was no barn burner, in terms of marketshare , Microsoft typically gives its products/services at least three releases before killing them. And ...

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readwriteweb.com 11/13/2008 — Microsoft today announced a new photo sharing product, Microsoft Live Photos , which integrates very nicely with Microsoft's Windows Live Photo Gallery desktop photo application, and is yet another product in the long list of Windows Live services ...
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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 3/3/2009 — Microsoft is testing a new design for its search engine, which it plans to rename. Kumo.com is one possibility to replace the Windows Live Search brand.
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Windows Live Search to be rebranded Kumo?CNET News.com 11/24/2008
Microsoft has taken control of the domain name and is reportedly directing internal traffic to the test site.