6. Windows Live will be dead:  Microsoft has (according to the InformationWeek account) to the relief of its customers, planned to kill the ‘Windows Live’ brand off especially since the name referred to a number of desktop and Internet services that confused customers. Authentication services were brought up by Windows Live ID, storage services referred to Live Mesh and Windows Live Mesh, and e-mail was called Windows Live Mail. With Windows 8, these services will simply be known as Microsoft account SkyDrive, and Mail respectively.