---
title: "Live.com is now live"
date: 2005-11-01
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# Live.com is now live

As part of the news this morning ([my coverage here](https://web.archive.org/web/20060114103327/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002915.php)), Microsoft has released a website called [live.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20060114103327/http://www.live.com/). It appears to be start.com under a new name – i.e. the RSS Reader/portal homepage that was [released earlier this year](https://web.archive.org/web/20060114103327/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002674.php). And it still doesn’t have decent Firefox support! Dave Winer has [a screenshot](https://web.archive.org/web/20060114103327/http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2005/11/01/Picture%201.gif).

## Back-story of live.com domain

The actual Live.com domain name used to be owned by a group of developers building Streaming Media products. This from [the homespun weblog back in February 2005](https://web.archive.org/web/20060114103327/http://computergod.typepad.com/home/2005/02/livecom.html):

> “The Live.com folks have developed a number of C++ source-code libraries for use in building streaming media applications. They have made some applications developed with these libraries available also – I was very interested in LiveCaster, an application to multicast MP3s on the internet.”

Interesting to see where Microsoft goes with this…

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/livecom_is_now.php))*